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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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The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
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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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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
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