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• For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.

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  Art, Powerful, Giving

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• Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled, close, half-talk of soft-fleshed women. The men she had embraced, and the women, all washing against the resonance of my memory. Sound within sound, scene within scene, woman within woman—like acid revealing an invisible script. One woman within another eternally, in a far-reaching procession, shattering my mind into fragments, into quarter tones which no orchestral baton can ever make whole again.

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  Memories, Men, Orange

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• Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I cant resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.

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  Love, Kissing, Blood

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• If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.

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  Mother, Children, Mean

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• Memory is a great betrayer.

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  Memories

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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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• But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.

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  Lying, Dark, Moments

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• In my dreams I sleep with everybody.

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  Dream, Sleep

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• The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

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  Inspirational, Being Single, Making Love

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

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  Hands, Broke, Fragile Things

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• [On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

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  Cities, Paris, Giving

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• I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

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  Book, Giving, Extravagance

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• Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

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  Artist, Reality, Poverty

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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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• Dreams are essential to life.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Psychics

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• When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

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  Order, World, Pressure

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• The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.

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  Unconscious, Ifs, Disregarded

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

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• ... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

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  Secret, Curtains, Sigh

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• Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

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  Travel, Paradise, Illusion

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• ... only love begets love.

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  Love Is, Only Love, Begets

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• Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.

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  Kissing, Reality, Two

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• Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

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  Art, Hate, Men

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• Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.

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  Beautiful, Makeup, Thinking

  "Henry and June". Book by Anais Nin, 1986.

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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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  Giving, Understanding, Individuality

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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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  Science, Poet, Scientist

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