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• I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.

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  Blow, Suffering Of Others, Miracle

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• All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

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  Broken, Effort, Connections

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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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  Lying, Animal, Stronger

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• One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.

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  Destiny, Mirrors, Childhood

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• There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

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  Suffering, Doe, Neurosis

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• Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

  Anais Nin

  Country, Art, War

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

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• We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.

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  People, Attention, Pay

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• Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky

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  Sky, Rejection, Rebuttal

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• I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Reality

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• Solitude may rust your words.

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  Solitude, Rust, May

  "Collages" by Anais Nin, (p. 116), 1964.

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• Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

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  Dream, Flaws, Failing

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• I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

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  New York, Animal, Missing

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• I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

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  Heart, Giving, Fool

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• Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

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  Long, Perfect, Imagination

  "Henry and June: from the unexpurgated diary of Anaïs Nin". Book by Anais Nin, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. 24, 1986.

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• Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.

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  Echoes, Giving, Secret

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• All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

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  World, Sacred, Taboo

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• Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

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  Giving, Hats, Strange

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• There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

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  Attitude, Book, Leaving

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• Adolescence is like cactus.

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  Cactus, Adolescence

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• To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.

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  Lying, Insanity, Courses

  "Henry and June: From A Journal of Love: the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin". Book by Anaïs Nin, 1986.

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• I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

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  Love, Inspirational, Passing By

  The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 5 1947-1955: Vol. 5 (1947-1955) (p. 272), Mach 26, 1975.

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• There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

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  Men, Two, Feelings

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• If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

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  Children, Mean, Eye

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• Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.

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  Joy, Sensual, Body

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• I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.

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  Understanding, World, Kingdoms

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