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Our love lives because I live.

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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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For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.
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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
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Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.
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Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
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The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.
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The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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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At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say Anna and then add ees, with the accent on the ees.
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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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Will you come down and kiss me good night?
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The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame the climate at times depresses him.
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the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
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The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.
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... only love begets love.
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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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But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.
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I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman
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We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.
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The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.
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