| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42560 |
| QUOTATION: | The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anaïs Nin (19031977), Franco-American novelist, diarist. Quoted in Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, preface (1934). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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