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ANAIS NIN ~ LIFE AND DEATH

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

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.
Anais Nin, “Winter of Artifice”

THOMAS MANN ~ ON LIFE

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

“For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.”
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

ANAIS NIN ~ LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. 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.”
Anais Nin

ANAIS NIN ~ ON LIFE

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

Anais Nin
” Ordinary
life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord
with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous”

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