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Jazz is the music of the body.

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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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The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.
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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
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To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.
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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
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Everything but happiness is neurosis.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
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Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.
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The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
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I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
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