Mariya

“If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

“the discovery of each other brings a kind of peace, because it brings the certitude that we are right. We are stronger together ... we will have less doubts." This seemed deeply true, yet I wonder if it is good to ally similarities, one agreeing with the other, as twins might, so that this might give an illusion of balance, reassure us about our orientation, or whether we should seek this by contrast with others,”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

“The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

“I am losing my great, dissolving, disintegrating pity for others, in which I saw deflected the compassion I wanted for myself. I no longer give compassion, which means I no longer need to receive it.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934