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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.

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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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 self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.
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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
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Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
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Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.
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I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Hollywood is a mirage factory.
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The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
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The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.
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