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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

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Truth, Reality, Expansion

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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.

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Fear, Men, People

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For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.

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Jobs, Artist, Issues

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Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping.

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Venice, Together, Sound

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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.

Anais Nin

Music, Writing, Wine

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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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Art, Loneliness, Balance

The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4, 1944-1947.

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I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

Anais Nin

Book, Waiting, World

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I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

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Life, Family, Beautiful

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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

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Addiction, Drug, Vices

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To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.

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Art, Mistake, Mean

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I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.

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Essence, Silence, Secret

"Under a Glass Bell". Book by Anais Nin, 1944.

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It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you feel the poorer for it. But then you have not thought that this dream is planted in others, others begin to live it too, it is shared, it is the beginning of friendship and love. How is this world made which you enjoy, the friends around me that you love? They came because I first gave away my stories.

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Dream, Writing, Giving

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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

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Ordinary, Doe, True Happiness

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932.

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In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his charms but his defences, plotting to disrobe, somewhere along the night-- his body without the aperture of the heart or his heart with a door closed to his body. thus keeping one compartment for refuge, one uninvaded cell.

Anais Nin

Heart, Night, Doors

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For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

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Creativity, Reality, Drug

"The Novel of the Future". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.

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Perfection, Creation, Possibility

"Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937". Book by Anais Nin, 1995.

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And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.

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Powerful, Impact, Silence

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A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

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Men, Humans, Dies

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I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.

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Hate, I Hate

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The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.

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Boredom, Way

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The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.

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Morning, Book, Heart

"House of Incest". Book by Anais Nin, 1936.

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I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

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Letting Go, Thirsty, Shackles

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although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

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Time, Hate, Believe

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I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

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Unique, Ideas, Should

"Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937". Book by Anais Nin, 1995.

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She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.

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Heart, Two, Desire

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Born: February 21, 1903
Died: January 14, 1977
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