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I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

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Book, Writing, Ignored

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The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.

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Writing, Imagination, Black

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They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

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Men, Faces, Fantasy

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I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.

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Beautiful, Psychics, World

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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.

Anais Nin

Heartbreak, Betrayal, Fall

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

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She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.

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Fall, Winter, June

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She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.

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Fall, Clothes, Bed

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Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

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People, Hopelessness

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A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

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Artist, Expansion, Enough

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She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.

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Taken, Feelings, Shadow

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Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.

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Book, Light, People

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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

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Crush, Growing, Enormous

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One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

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Truth, May, Gains

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We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.

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Lying, Twists, Passionate

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Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

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Writing, Age, Needs

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A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.

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Men, Magic, Ordinary

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While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.

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Mother, Father, People

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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

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Confidence, Good Luck, Fate

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Hollywood is a mirage factory.

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Hollywood, Mirages, Factories

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Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!

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Children, Cities, Long

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One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.

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Self, Cities, Needs

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I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman

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Believe, Thinking, Wife

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Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

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Political, Gone, Serious

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I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am not trying to think any more. I can't think when I am with you. You are like me, wishing for a perfect moment, but nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way. Neither one of us can say just the right thing. We are overwhelmed. Let us be overwhelmed. It is so lovely, so lovely. I love you June.

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Love You, Thinking, June

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My diary seems to keep me whole.

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Diaries, Journal, Whole

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