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Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin (Spanish pronunciation: [anaˈis ˈnin]; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell) (February 21, 1903–January 14, 1977) was a French author who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly...
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

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The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

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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.

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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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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Dreams are necessary to life.

Dreams are necessary to life.

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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.

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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