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“It is a terrible thing
To be so open: it is as if my heart
Put on a face and walked into the world.”
― Winter Trees
To be so open: it is as if my heart
Put on a face and walked into the world.”
― Winter Trees
“40. Beautiful Things
They say you're overly sensitive. That your heart sits too comfortably at the precipice, ready to plummet at the slightest provocation. An unkind word can send you spiraling. A perceived indifference shakes you down to your core. You don't know why you absorb feelings so readily, even when they aren't your own. But one day, you will learn to appreciate the gift you have been given. To live in peace with your sentimentality and, from this raw and tender place, create the most beautiful things.”
― The Gift of Everything
They say you're overly sensitive. That your heart sits too comfortably at the precipice, ready to plummet at the slightest provocation. An unkind word can send you spiraling. A perceived indifference shakes you down to your core. You don't know why you absorb feelings so readily, even when they aren't your own. But one day, you will learn to appreciate the gift you have been given. To live in peace with your sentimentality and, from this raw and tender place, create the most beautiful things.”
― The Gift of Everything
“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
“So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“I have had my chances. I have tried and tried.
I have stitched life into me like a rare organ,
And walked carefully, precariously, like something rare.
I have tried not to think too hard. I have tried to be natural.
I have tried to be blind in love, like other women,
Blind in my bed, with my dear blind sweet one,
Not looking, through the thick dark, for the face of another.”
― The Collected Poems
I have stitched life into me like a rare organ,
And walked carefully, precariously, like something rare.
I have tried not to think too hard. I have tried to be natural.
I have tried to be blind in love, like other women,
Blind in my bed, with my dear blind sweet one,
Not looking, through the thick dark, for the face of another.”
― The Collected Poems
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