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.”

“For me, religion is simply beauty.”

“I love to be alone among the waves and in the midst of danger.”

“I ran like mad and dived into the waves, feeling truly sorry not to be able to fall asleep at the bottom of the sea and not think of anything any more!”

“I have used books as my teachers, have let them fill my soul with poetry, my heart with romance, my eyes with illusions, and at present when I leave them behind, I have to begin to learn to live.”

“With my head full of romance, I am looking for embodiment of an illusion.”

“One of the most beautiful things in the world is memory. Is there anything more beautiful than to be able to relive happy moments as many times as one wishes?”

“A child’s glance is frank, clear, open. An older person’s is rather closed, a little cynical, shadowed by hidden thoughts and the tears of disillusionment. All that is natural.”