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To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school. A hunger for the unknown, and an aspiration towards beauty were inseparable from civilization.

— Anaïs Nin The Novel of the Future (1969)

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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

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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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