If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence … - Anaïs Nin

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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

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Anaïs Nin (Spanish pronunciation: [anaˈiz ˈnin]; 21 February 1903 – 14 January 1977), born Angela Anais Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, was a French-born author of Spanish, Cuban, and Danish descent who became famous for her published journals, which span more than sixty years, and for her erotica.

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Alternative Names: Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell • Anais Nin • Ángela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin Culmell

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Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.

The times in his studio when he washed his hands and they smoked, for his hands were so warm and the water so cold.

You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.

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