Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. (Anaïs Nin)

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

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