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“Past, present, future - a physicist might say these distinctions are illusions anyway. The human brain is subject to all kinds of misperceptions, and the waking mind not always more attuned to reality than the dreaming one.”
― The Dreamers
― The Dreamers
“I like reading my own writing. It seems to fit me closer than it did before.”
― A Writer's Diary
― A Writer's Diary
“On Keeping a Journal.
Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptacle for one’s private, secret thoughts—like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself.
The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather—in many cases—offers an alternative to it.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptacle for one’s private, secret thoughts—like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself.
The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather—in many cases—offers an alternative to it.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“How can I describe my life to you? I think a lot, listen to music. I’m fond of flowers”
― Death Kit
― Death Kit
“As I write, there rises somewhere in my head that queer and very pleasant sense of something which I want to write; my own point of view...”
― A Writer's Diary
― A Writer's Diary
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