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Book: A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars and Interviews of Anaïs Nin
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  1. Anaïs Nin _ A Woman Speaks: The Lectures,

    You must not fear or hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and your feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to receive, to nourish yourself, and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and writing. Permit yourself to flow and overflow. Allow for the rise in temperature and all the expansions and intensifications. Something is always born of excess. Great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
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  2. Anaïs Nin _ A Woman Speaks: The Lectures,

    In our twenties we have conflicts. We think everything is either-or, black or white: we are caught between them and we lose all our energy in the conflicts. My answer, later on in maturity, was to do them all. Not to exclude any, not to make a choice. I wanted to be everything. And I took everything in, and the more you take in, the more strength you find waiting to accomplish things and to expand your life, instead of the other {which is what we have been taught to do} which is to look for structure and to fear change, above all to fear change. Now I didn't fear change.
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  3. Anaïs Nin _ A Woman Speaks: The Lectures,

    What can you give when there is no self, when you have no sensitivity, no receptivity, no warmth, nothing to contact others with?
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