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“Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
لطالما علمت أن داخلي امرأتين على الأقل، الأولى يائسة، حائرة، تشعر بأنها تغرق دائمًا. والثانية بإمكانها أن تقفز إلى أي مشهد تريده، كأنها على خشبة مسرح وتخفي مشاعرها الحقيقية لأنها نقاط ضعفها وعجزها. وتقدّم للعالم ابتسامتها فقط، والكثير من الحرص والفضول والاهتمام.”
― The Diary of Anais Nin
لطالما علمت أن داخلي امرأتين على الأقل، الأولى يائسة، حائرة، تشعر بأنها تغرق دائمًا. والثانية بإمكانها أن تقفز إلى أي مشهد تريده، كأنها على خشبة مسرح وتخفي مشاعرها الحقيقية لأنها نقاط ضعفها وعجزها. وتقدّم للعالم ابتسامتها فقط، والكثير من الحرص والفضول والاهتمام.”
― The Diary of Anais Nin
“It is a terrible thing
To be so open: it is as if my heart
Put on a face and walked into the world.”
― The Collected Poems
To be so open: it is as if my heart
Put on a face and walked into the world.”
― The Collected Poems
“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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