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jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

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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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Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.
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I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
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Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.
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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
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it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and there come an end to the interest, and this never happens in a journal!
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You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
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Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
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When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
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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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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
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Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.
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I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
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