Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.
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...if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.
Don’t wait for it,’ I said. ‘Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened up to me.
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Already I realize certain feelings I was not aware of, like the fear of being hurt. I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.