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• In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.

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  Dream, New York, Laughter

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• One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

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  Truth, Hypocrisy, Deception

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

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• New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

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  New York, Cities, Jazz

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• New York has an electronic heart.

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  New York, Heart

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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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  Roots, Firsts, Advantage

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

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  Music, Self, Expression

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• I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

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  Dream, Reality, World Love

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• This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.

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  Yield, Air, Sun

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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  Courage, Believe, Innocent

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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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  Pain, Violence, Mystery

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• He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

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  Inspirational Love, Fire, States

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

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  Angel, Devil, Rhythm

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• I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women’s faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.

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  Regret, People, Done

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• I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.

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  Thinking, June, Genius

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• I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.

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  Self, Voice, Long

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• We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.

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  Kitchen, Mind, Exchanging

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• My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

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  Eye, Men, Race

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

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• The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure.

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  Fighting, Men, People

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• The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it's surprises, varied expressions, and mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.

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  Dream, Lying, Expression

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• The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.

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  Fall, Glasses, Mirrors

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• The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.

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  Strong, Cooking, Black

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• Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.

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  Judging, People, Secret

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• I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1938 For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.

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  Stars, Adventure, Fire

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• The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.

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  Writing, Alcohol, Live In The Moment

  "Woman As Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 42), 1978.

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• Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

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  Imagination, Body, Idealism

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