“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
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“For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its colour and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of non-conviction. It speaks through its constant tiny dance, sometimes swaying, sometimes a-jitter, sometimes trembling. It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirit, the pit at the centre, and rising hope. The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
“شهادة جامعيّة, وأربعة كتب، ومئات المقالات، وما زلت أخطئ في القراءة .. تكتبين لي "صباح الخير" وأقرؤها "أحبك”
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“I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.”
― The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1920-1923
― The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1920-1923
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