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Quote by Anaïs Nin
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is us

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. – Anaïs Nin

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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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Writing
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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 virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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Miscellaneous
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anaïs Nin

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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos—the trees, the clouds, everything. – Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Skin is a covering for our immortality. – Terri Guillemets

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Mindfulness of the body is awareness of… the taste and smell of this moment. – Steve Hagen

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To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. – Buddha

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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. – Samuel Johnson

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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes. – Vanessa Paradis

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. – Francis Bacon

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. – Ernst Fischer

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