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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Death Error Giving Living Losing Postpone Risking Suffering

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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.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Anxiety Drowning Feel Greatest He Him His Holds Killer Know Love Makes Man Might Others Panic Save Strangle Want Will You

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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

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Topics: Incapacity Love Only To Love

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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

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Topics: Come Desk Ideas Living Midst Writing

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

~Anais Nin

Topics: Father Long Long Time Long Time Ago Loving Pattern Remained Slavery Stopped Time

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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

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Topics: Big Book Cosmic Each Give Individual Life Like Meaning Novel Only Our Person Plot

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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.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Because Breathe Cry Culture Our Out Sing Then Through Use Write Writing You

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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Absence Child Confronted Created Father Fatherless Godless His Human Left Man Recognized Then Who

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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Always Catch Dream Live Me Miracle Moment Running Unison Up Ahead

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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Above Am First First Of All Human Right Woman I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 21st, 1903

Died: January 14th, 1977

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