“I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.”
― Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
― Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.”
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“I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
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