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[Anais Nin]This is Anais Nin, and I'm reading from the volume 4 of the diaries.

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In June, 1945, I wrote a letter to a young poet

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who was preoccupied, was concerned, about how little he had to give me.

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I wrote to him: "I like to live always at the beginnings of life, not at their end.

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We all lose some of our faith under the oppression of mad leaders, insane history,

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pathologic cold days of daily life.

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I am by nature always beginning and believing

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and so I find your company more fruitful than those who assert their opinions, beliefs and knowledge

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as the ultimate verity.

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All the people fall into rigid patterns.