"Something is always born of excess: great art……" — 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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402 Quotes by Anais Nin
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- I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in…
- He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
- We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by…
- Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for…
- I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
- The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding…
- I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
- The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage,…
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