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“I weep because you cannot save people. You can only love them. You can’t transform them, you can only console them.”
― Nearer the Moon: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1937-1939
― Nearer the Moon: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1937-1939
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944
“I am not not an I, secret wick, I do nothing, light myself, burn.”
― Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness
― Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness
“Spiraling in hollowed caves of skin-stretched me, totally doorless,
Emptied of vital parts, previously evicted finally
by landlord mind
To make nerve-lined living space, needed desperately by my transient, sightless, sleepless,
Soul.”
― Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness
Emptied of vital parts, previously evicted finally
by landlord mind
To make nerve-lined living space, needed desperately by my transient, sightless, sleepless,
Soul.”
― Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness
“How was it that a man could not walk onto his own property, visit the grave of his wife, eat the fruits of forty generations of his ancestors’ toil, without mortal consequence? Somehow that raw question had not previously penetrated the consciousness of the refugees who had become confused in the rank eternity of waiting, pining at abstract international resolutions, resistance, and struggle.”
― Mornings in Jenin
― Mornings in Jenin
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