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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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I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
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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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The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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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He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.
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A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.
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Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?
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We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
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When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
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The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
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I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.
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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
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