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I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.

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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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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.
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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
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I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
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But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.
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She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.
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I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.
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jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
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He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
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America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.
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