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“This must be what love is: a pain so radiant it cuts through all others.”

— Bone Map: Poems, ‘Beekeeping’ by Sara Eliza Johnson

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“The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.”

— Arthur Koestler (b. 5 September 1905) Hungarian British Jewish author and journalist

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- Pablo Neruda, from Sonnet XVII

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Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “Bliss”

[Text ID: “the moon of her eyes.”]

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August 23, 1927 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931 [volume 4]

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Anaïs Nin, from The Voice

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“Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformations, its aphrodisiac elements. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You are shrinking your world of sensations. You are withering it, starving it, draining its blood. If you nourished your sexual life with all the excitements and adventures which love injects into sensuality, you would be the most potent human being in the world. The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.”

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin

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Lake Garda / Gardone Riviera, Italy

View from the window of Gabriele d’Annunzio’s home

November 2019

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Clara Janés Nadal, tr. by Carol Thickstun & Louis Burne, from "I Don't Know,"

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“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I want to live only for ecstasy. I’m neurotic, perverted, destructive, fiery, dangerous - lava, inflammable, unrestrained.”

— Anaïs Nin 

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Kinuko Y. Craft, Psyche’s Curiosity

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I’ve come to such a state of passion that anything I might write now would burn up the paper. 

Henry Miller, from ‘A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953’

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Tonight I am all in flames. 

Anaïs Nin, from ‘A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953′

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Aware of you, chaotically.

Anaïs Nin, from ‘A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953′