Anaïs Nin - The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1966)

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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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He left me at my hotel at 3:00 AM murmuring: "You're marvelous."

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One does not need to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. One need not be branded by the first pattern. Once the deforming mirror is smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness; there is a possibility of joy.

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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.

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Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

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To me the truth is something which cannot be told in a few words, and those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

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Notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

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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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We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics...

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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

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The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.

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I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

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Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eye-lids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

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Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.

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