I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
Anais NinThe inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.
Anais NinThe artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
Anais NinWhy do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver. And one thinks them insincere. Yet I want to believe her. At the same time it does not seem so very important that she should love me. It is not her role. I am so filled with my love of her. And at the same time I feel that I am dying. Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings.
Anais Nin