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• Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

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  Artist, Flow, Currents

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

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  Friendship, Keys, Wife

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• Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

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  House, And Love, Turns

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• Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.

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  New York, Two, Paris

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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 despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

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  Abnormal, Reassurance, Despise

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• I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

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  Rushing, Joy, Moments

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• I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

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  Husband, Father, Believe

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• To love and to labor is the sum of living.

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  Labor

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• Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

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  Indirect, Womanly, Delicate

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• To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

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  Suicide, Sacrifice, Triumph

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• I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.

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  Beautiful, Men, Firsts

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• All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

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  Tragedy, Trying, Mystery

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

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• I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

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  Tourists, World

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• Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

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  Anxiety, Killers, Drowning

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• I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

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  Dream, Unique, Bird

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• All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

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  Art, Analysis, Evolution

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• The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

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  Monsters, Transformation, Creation

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• If you can't create, you destroy.

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  Creativity, Destruction, Ifs

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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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  Believe, Night, Evil

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