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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Dreams are essential to life.
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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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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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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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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
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We see things the way we are, not the way they are.
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I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension
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The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
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Adolescence is like cactus.
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The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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 reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
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