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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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We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.
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Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
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Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.
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She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.
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But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.
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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
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When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
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I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.
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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
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