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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

Anais Nin

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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
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jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
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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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We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.
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I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.
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New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
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The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
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