“There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.”
― In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
― In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
“My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea, and my eyes are the color of water.”
― House of Incest
― House of Incest
“Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.”
― The Journals of Anais Nin
― The Journals of Anais Nin
“If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.”
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“I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.”
― Delta of Venus
― Delta of Venus
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