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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.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944

“In all of us there is human weakness. The friend is the one who goes out to strengthen this weakness, but not to attack it.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944

“I don’t look back with any pleasure at the sacrifices I made. I consider it time wasted. Whereas I do not think it time wasted to be idle, to dream, to play. Very much the contrary, I think.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 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.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944