“If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.”
― The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934
“The living out in excess kills the imagination and the intensity,”
― The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934
“Perhaps I should not tell him the dream. It puts me in his hands, it is giving him too much,”
― The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934
“You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does not nourish the artist, you know; he creates in spite of it, out of anything, any material given to him. The torments and hells of [crazy men], are not for you.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 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.”
― The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934
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