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.”