Status Updates From The Diary of Anais Nin 1931...

June clearly you’re an icon but I cannot stand to have to hear one more word about you.

"To love is to forgive, to understand, to wish the other's happiness. That is not Mother's love. Just blind, blind possessiveness.”

“The clear, stark vision I had of myself is getting lost again by my obedience to the life of the imagination in which I chose to believe. The veil was sundered, and soon after, I covered the truth again. Eddies of illusion engulf reality again. I have accepted a self which is unlimited. What I imagine is as true as what is. I want to get lost in mystery again.”

“But wisdom is a swifter way of reaching death. I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. Allendy has chosen to die quickly, early, for the sake of dominating life. The romantic submits to life, the classicist dominates it”