“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
― The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
“I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves as so inadequate that they feel forced to wear a mask in order to continuously impress the other. I do not want to "hold" you, I want you to "stay" out of your own need for me.”
― Soul on Ice
― Soul on Ice
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― Blindness
― Blindness
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