“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
―
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
―
“And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
“Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.”
― Sun & Steel
― Sun & Steel
“We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.”
― The Mountains of California
― The Mountains of California
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
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