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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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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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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
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The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
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He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
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I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.
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Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.
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Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
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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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The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.
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Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.
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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
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I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.
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Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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