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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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There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.
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Most artists have retired too absolutely they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
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Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
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We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
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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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I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
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Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
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To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.
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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
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I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.
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