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“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”
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“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort”
― A Hora da Estrela
― A Hora da Estrela
“Who wants to become a writer? And why? ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower of life, even if it's a cactus.”
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