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“I was not travelling away from human life, I was seeking my own fulfillment. Searching for heightened moments uninterrupted by life’s daily exigencies.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944
“Every other illness is understood, shared with other human beings. Not this one. It is mysterious and solitary, it is as ineffectual and unmoving to others as the attempted crying out of a mute person.
Everybody understands hunger, physical pain, illness, poverty, slavery. But no one understands that this moment at which I crossed the street is more annhiliating than a concrete catastrophe. Anxiety is a woman screaming without a voice, out of a nightmare.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944
Everybody understands hunger, physical pain, illness, poverty, slavery. But no one understands that this moment at which I crossed the street is more annhiliating than a concrete catastrophe. Anxiety is a woman screaming without a voice, out of a nightmare.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944
“Man seems powerless to face the truth or the relative truth stripped of all adornment.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944
“There was in me confusion between love and devotion. I thought all my acts were acts of love, yielding up of the self, the personal. But I did feel hurt that they were all willing to immolate me, and felt unloved according to my own definition of love: sacrifice.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944
“The enormous difference between the relationships you need, and the one you deeply want. The need is created out of an accumulation of negativities, planted by traumatic experiences: fear, doubts, anxiety, dependence, weakness in certain realms, inadequacy, incompleteness. A certain relationship can remove the fear, calm anxiety, supply a certain completion, replace a loss, fulfill an organic insufficiency, lull an insecurity, supply a substitute love.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944
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