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Anaïs Nin was born in France in 1903 to Cuban parents.
* She began writing her diaries at the age of 11 and continued to do so until her death in 1977.
* Her diaries were published posthumously and became a bestseller.
* Nin was also a novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
* Her work explored themes of sexuality, relationships, and the inner life.
* She was a friend and lover of many famous writers, including Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell.
* Nin's work has been praised for its honesty, insight, and sensuality.
* She is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century.

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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.

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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

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I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

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

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I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe.

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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

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Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.

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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

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What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

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I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

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