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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past. (Anaïs Nin)
He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away. View quote
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One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. View quote
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I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. View quote
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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. View quote
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I write emotional algebra. View quote
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Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it. View quote
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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death. View quote
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Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone. View quote
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I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self. View quote
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When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet. (Anaïs Nin)
He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt. View quote
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I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams. View quote
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At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection. View quote
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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. View quote
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We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds. View quote
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I hate men who are afraid of women's strength. View quote
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I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. View quote
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You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars. View quote
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Every word you wrote I ate, as if it were manna. Finding one's self in a book is a second birth; and you are the only one who knows that at times men behave like women and women like men, and that all these distinctions are mock distinctions. View quote
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I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. (Anaïs Nin)
I want to make my own discoveries....... penetrate the evil which attracts me. View quote
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I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed. View quote
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I'm sick of my own romanticism! View quote
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His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that... only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it. View quote
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