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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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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.
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Each friend represents a world in us.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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