Cortney Schmidt

“life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.”
― anaïs nin

“In chaos, there is fertility.”
― Anais Nin

“To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.”
― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.”
― Anais Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932