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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

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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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Jazz is the music of the body.
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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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 will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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One may gain one truth at the expense of another.
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Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
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