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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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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.
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A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.
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Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.
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If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, I have heard Rabelais.. And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.
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Memory is a great betrayer.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.
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I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.
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I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
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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 like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
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If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.
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