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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

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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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... only love begets love.
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All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
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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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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
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For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
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I write emotional algebra.
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.
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Everything but happiness is neurosis.
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The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
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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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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
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Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
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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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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
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