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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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Anxiety is loves greatest killer.
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gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.
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To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
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notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
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I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
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They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Will you come down and kiss me good night?
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