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

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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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notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
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The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
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Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
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I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.
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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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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.
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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 have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
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I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
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If you can't create, you destroy.
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