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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
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I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.
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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 postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
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There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
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To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
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The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
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I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
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Our love lives because I live.
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When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.
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..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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