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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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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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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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Destroy the roots of the healthiest plants, their heads will droop and die. Many excellent qualities of the mind have their roots, in fact, in the body: their summits, which adorn the spiritual being, the mind, will wither, if we neglect the soil of these valuable plants… – C.G. Salzmann, Gymnastics for Youth: or, A Practical Guide to Healthful and Amus

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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind. – Georg Feuerstein

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Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. – Zacharty Bercovitz

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