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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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I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.
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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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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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I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension
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A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
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When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.
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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.
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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
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Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
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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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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
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