The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.
Anais NinA big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
Anais NinThere are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais NinDeath from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
Anais NinA man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
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