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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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To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
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Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.
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There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
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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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I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
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I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life. Don't wait for it, I said. Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.
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We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
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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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His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
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