Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled, close, half-talk of soft-fleshed women. The men she had embraced, and the women, all washing against the resonance of my memory. Sound within sound, scene within scene, woman within woman—like acid revealing an invisible script. One woman within another eternally, in a far-reaching procession, shattering my mind into fragments, into quarter tones which no orchestral baton can ever make whole again.
I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn s… - Anais Nin
I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn s…
- Anais Nin
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, m… - Anais Nin
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, m…
Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life. - Anais Nin
Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. - Anais Nin
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. - Anais Nin
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. - Anais Nin
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the… - Anais Nin
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the…
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