Cynthia Jane
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It never occurred to me that a recipe might be too hard; hadn’t I mastered soufflés at the age of thirteen?
“We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds.”
― Serve It Forth
― Serve It Forth
“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.”
― Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
― Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance the gap will never be filled.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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