Status Updates From The Early Diary of Anaïs Ni...

i’m finally back

her mind captures me entirely. i read most of the passages twice and i wonder how it is possible to think and write like she does—i’m in awe.

“It seems to be in my nature to resist joy, yet I suppose it is consistent with my creed of sorrow.”

“Oh, how precious to me are the hours of solitude. How I love these moments of meditation and dreams!”

“It’s real madness that takes hold of me: when I read a book, I am hungry for another, then another—I forget myself, I forget my family, I am the Anaïs of former times, concentrated in another’s life…”

“It’s only a bird who has gone from my life, but I am aware of that strange Law that forces us to separate, that causes such emptiness and breaks so many hearts when its fatal power is felt.”