Anaïs Nin - Creation Quotes

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I think that natural truths will cease to be spat at us like insults, that aesthetics will once more be linked with ethics, and that people will become aware that in casting out aesthetics that they also cast out a respect for human life, a respect for creation, a respect for spiritual values. Aesthetics was an expression of man's need to be in love with his world. The cult of ugliness is a regression. It destroys our appetite, our love for our world.

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In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.

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I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.

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The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

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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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No desire of the body, but for what lies in there, what lies in the flesh, the world, the thought, the creation, the illumination.

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The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

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Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life.

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