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  1. Anaïs Nin _ Seduction Of The Minotaur

    Now the evening is beginning and I will discover a human being to court or to be courted by, an adventure with caprice and desire, and while gambling I might find love.
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  2. Anaïs Nin _ Seduction Of The Minotaur

    more damaging was his conviction that we live by a series of repetitions until the experience is solved, understood, liquidated...
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  3. Anaïs Nin _ Seduction Of The Minotaur

    Golconda remained a city where the wind was like velvet, where the sun was made of radium, and the sea as warm as a mother's womb.
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  4. Anaïs Nin _ Seduction Of The Minotaur

    What makes some butterflies have such beautiful colors on their wings, and others not?" "The plain ones were born of parents who didn't know how to paint.
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  5. Anaïs Nin _ Seduction Of The Minotaur

    Each one of us possesses in himself a separate and distinct city, a unique city, as we possess different aspects of the same person.
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  6. Anaïs Nin _ Seduction Of The Minotaur

    For the first time, in Golconda, she had practiced Larry's choice of withdrawing if the people were not of quality. Of preferring solitude to the effort of pretending he was interested in them.
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    You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz.
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  8. Anaïs Nin _ Seduction Of The Minotaur

    Lillian was reminded of the Talmudic words: "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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    Perhaps," said the Doctor pensively. "It may also be that you Americans are work-cultists, and work is the structure that holds you up, not the joy of pure living.
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  10. Anaïs Nin _ Seduction Of The Minotaur

    Whereas by desiring someone who would not desire her, she could allow this fire to burn and feel: how alive I am! I am capable of desire.
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  11. Anaïs Nin _ Seduction Of The Minotaur

    A long time ago," said Michael, "I decided never to fall in love again. I have made of desire an anonymous activity." "But not to feel...not to love...is like dying within life, Michael.
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