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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
Anais Nin
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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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Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.
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The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Introspection is a devouring monster.
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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
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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 disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
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New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
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We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
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the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.
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To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth
Anais Nin
There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.
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