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We see things the way we are, not the way they are.

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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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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
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I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
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... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.
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Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
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Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!
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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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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
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Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
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Will you come down and kiss me good night?
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I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
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In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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