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“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...”
― Island
― Island
“I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
― Fire: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937
― Fire: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937
“Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea. And the East and West the wander-thirst that will not let me be.”
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