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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

Anais Nin

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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
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We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
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This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
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The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
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What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.
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The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
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Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
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To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ
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