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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.

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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You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.
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We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
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The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me
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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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There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth
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... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
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I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.
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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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