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

—  Anaïs Nin

As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 137

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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977

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