Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
Anais NinOne discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
Anais NinSexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.
Anais NinShe had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.
Anais Nin