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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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Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
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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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Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
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I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.
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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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gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.
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To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
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Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
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the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
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