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• Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

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  Family, Maturity, Compassion

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

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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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  Love, Life, Marriage

  Diary, Feb. 1947

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• Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

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  Gold, Ordinary, Alchemy

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• When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

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  Being Yourself, Acceptance, Unique

  "Winter of Artifice". Book by Anais Nin, 1939.

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• I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

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  Hate, Heart, Independent

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• We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

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  Feelings, Musical, Sound

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

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  Insecurity, Unfamiliar, Hostile

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• You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.

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  Imagination, Demand, My Imagination

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• The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.

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  Weakness, Obstacles

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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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  Alive, Life Is, Moments

  "D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers" by Leo Hamalian, (p. 93), 1996.

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• Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. 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. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.

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  Lonely, Broken, Understanding

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• One handles truths like dynamite.

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  Truth, Dynamite, Handle

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

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• To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

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  Thinking, Ordinary, Middle

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• It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

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  Writing, Emotional, Movement

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• I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

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  Love You, Power, People

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• The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.

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  Writing, Eye, Responsibility

  "Moving to Antarctica : An Anthology of Women's Writing". Book by Margaret Kaminski, 1975.

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• We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

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  Abyss

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• The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

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  Hurt, Imagination, Doe

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• Passion gives me moments of wholeness.

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  Passion, Giving, Moments

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

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  Ocean, Eye, Order

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• The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

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  Spiritual, Life Lesson, Knowledge

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• I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

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  Wings, Use, Enough

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• I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

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  People, Different, Different Peoples

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• Introspection is a devouring monster.

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  Monsters, Devouring, Introspection

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• The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

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  Society, Favors, Patterns

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