Jeanette Winterson quotes
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Джанет Уинтерсон
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Anais Nin quotes
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
Анаис Нин
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Anais Nin quotes
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man's cult of beauty.
Анаис Нин
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Anais Nin quotes
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: 'Excuse me, it was all a dream,' and by that time I may have found one who will say: 'Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.'
Анаис Нин
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Anais Nin quotes
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
Анаис Нин
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Anais Nin quotes
Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
Анаис Нин
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Anais Nin quotes
Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
Анаис Нин
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Anais Nin quotes
I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
Анаис Нин
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Zelda Fitzgerald quotes
The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.
Зельда Фицджеральд
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Zelda Fitzgerald quotes
Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.
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Zelda Fitzgerald quotes
Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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Zelda Fitzgerald quotes
Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.
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Zelda Fitzgerald quotes
Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.
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Zelda Fitzgerald quotes
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
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Zelda Fitzgerald quotes
Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?
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Zelda Fitzgerald quotes
It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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Zelda Fitzgerald quotes
Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
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Zelda Fitzgerald quotes
Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.
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