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The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1966)
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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.
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We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.
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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
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What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.
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A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
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The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
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Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
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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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Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.
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America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth.
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We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
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I would say that compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.
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Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."
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The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.
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Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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Born:
February 21, 1903
Died:
January 14, 1977
(aged 73)
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