“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
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Anais Nin
Anaïs Nin is known internationally for her diary, eleven volumes of which have been published. The 35,000 handwritten pages of her journals are currently located in the UCLA library. She was born in Paris to Cuban parents, and spent her early years in Cuba and Spain. Her young adulthood was spent in Paris and she and her husband, Hugo Guiler, moved to the United States in 1939 to avoid World War II. After meeting Rupert Pole in 1947 she engaged in a "bicoastal trapeze" living with him in Los Angeles as a married couple and maintaining her marriage with Guiler in New York. She died of cervical cancer in 1977.
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“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
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“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
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“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
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“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
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“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
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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.”
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“Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.”
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