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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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Memory is a great betrayer.
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gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.
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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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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
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I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.
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The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame the climate at times depresses him.
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The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.
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Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
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[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.
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Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.
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This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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