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The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

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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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Creation
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Obscenity
Ever
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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
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Dreams are essential to life.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.
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His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
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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.
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
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The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.
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The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
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