“But in those days, I thought that by believing in magic and miracles, by believing hard enough, harder than anyone on earth, I would be made witness to the sublime. And so, what I was doing on the rooftop was praying. I was praying for the gift of flight, for the black umbrella and the hidden angels to aid me.”
― The Body: An Essay
― The Body: An Essay
“Let those strikes of lightning come so we will quickly know what leaves us.”
― The Body: An Essay
― The Body: An Essay
“Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.”
― Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
― Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
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