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When one is pretending the entire body revolts. - Anaïs Nin

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. – Anaïs Nin

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

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Body
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Anaïs Nin
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anaïs Nin

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Self-Discovery
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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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Be Yourself
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I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything. – George Gissing

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A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. – Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942

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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. – Johann von Goethe

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Be Yourself

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