Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
— Anaïs Nin Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you're not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn't a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.
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What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?
— Anaïs Nin The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
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I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had never known before.
— Anaïs Nin The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
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Although I was so big, and so rough in many ways, loved hunting, fighting, horseback riding, I loved the piano above everything else...The mountain man's obsession is to get a glimpse of the sea.
— Anaïs Nin The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
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These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since his lifelong habit had created the opposite habit: to elude, to avoid, to disappoint every expectation of others, every commitment, every promise, every crystallization.
— Anaïs Nin The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
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