“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
―
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
―
“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”
―
―
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
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