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Anaïs Nin on Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Creativity

"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."

Anaïs Nin on Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Creativity

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