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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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How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.
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What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
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All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.
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I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.
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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
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Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ
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The dream has to be translated into reality.
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We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.
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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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