“The problem of pain is that I cannot feel my father's, and he cannot feel mine. This, I suppose, is also the essential mercy of pain.”
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“I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse.
I will not come out of this with nothing.”
― If I Had Your Face
I will not come out of this with nothing.”
― If I Had Your Face
“I’d been sad in Dublin, decided it was Dublin’s fault, and thought Hong Kong would help.”
― Exciting Times
― Exciting Times
“I wince now at the words I said in the past to grieving friends. "Find peace in your memories," I used to say. To have love snatched from you, especially unexpectedly, and then to be told to turn to memories. Rather than succor, my memories bring eloquent stabs of pain that say, "This is what you will never again have.”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
“Give me a few days of peace in your arms—I need it terribly. I’m ragged, worn, exhausted. After that I can face the world.”
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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