The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.
Anais NinLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais NinWhat you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
Anais NinI believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
Anais NinI love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.
Anais Nin