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Anais Nin

"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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"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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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."

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"I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?"

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"Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness."

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"Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got."

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"All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge."

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"What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?"
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"I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding."
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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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"They clutch and cling and howl when I leave them, but how badly they love."
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"I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic - in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself."
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"No privacy left. No manners."
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