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Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

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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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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
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Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
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Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
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... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
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One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
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notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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Introspection is a devouring monster.
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We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is because it is the I behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
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I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.
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