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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Build Create Expect Herself How Man Rather She Than Wants Woman World Wrong

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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Because Explanation Love No Reason Reason Seek Solutions

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Adversity Defeat Endure Known Life Lose Only Stumble Suffer Those Truly Who

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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.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Acquire Beings Complete Developments Few Fragment Human Human Beings Illumination Instant Laborious Like Mosaic Most Receive Scale Small Staggering Successive Them Truth Very Who

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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Being Contact Each Human Human Being Precious Preserve Rare Should

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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.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Because Blindness Death Dies Errors How Illness Know Love Natural Never Source Weariness Wounds

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We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Life Moment Taste Twice Write

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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.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Cannot Ecstasy Images Joy Just Live Love Make Passing Permanent Possess Sources Tourist Watching Which Will World

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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.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Action Brought Composed Connection Dreams Greatly Life Must Our Together Unconscious Woven

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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.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Expansion Few Meaning Only Reduce Simplify Something Those Truth Truth Is Universe Which Who Words

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 21st, 1903

Died: January 14th, 1977

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