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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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I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.
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I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
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perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
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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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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.
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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.
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Solitude may rust your words.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
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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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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
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