We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.
Anais Nin... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
Anais NinIn every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
Anais NinThe truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
Anais NinThe imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.
Anais Nin