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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.

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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I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.
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What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
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I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.
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The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
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I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
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The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.
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Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.
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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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