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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
Anais Nin
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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 believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.
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Memory is a great betrayer.
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Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!
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Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
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Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are
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You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
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In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
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We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.
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In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.
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