Anaïs Nin
"I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon."
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"I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon."
"كثيرًا ما أرى كيف تنتحب على ما تدمره، وكيف تشتهي أن تكف وتتفرغ للعبادة فحسب؛ وبالفعل تتوقف، وما هي إلا لحظة حتى تعود إليها من جديد وبيدك سكين، كالجراح."
Anaïs Nin
"I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women’s faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill."
"نظرتُ إليه [المسدس] وكأنه يذكّرني بجريمة ارتكبتُها، وعلى شفتي ابتسامة لا تُقاوَم، كتلك التي تعلو أحيانًا وجوه الناس أمام الكوارث العظمى التي تفوق إدراكهم؛ الابتسامة التي ترتسم أحيانًا على وجوه بعض النساء وهنّ يعبّرن عن ندمهنّ على الأذى الذي ألحقنه. إنها ابتسامة الطبيعة وهي تؤكد بهدوء وفخر حقها الطبيعي في القتل."
Anaïs Nin
"Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark."
"يبلغ الإنسان من الوحدة الموحشة مبلغًا قد يتجاوز به حدًا لا تجدي معه الكلمات نفعًا، وفي مثل هذه اللحظات لا يبقى له سوى أن ينبح."
Anaïs Nin
"I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . ."
"لم أُحرَّك إلا كورقة في مهب الريح، هذا كل ما في الأمر..."
Anaïs Nin
"We see the world not as it is, but as we are."
"نحن لا نرى العالم كما هو، بل كما نحن."
Anaïs Nin
"Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved."
"القصص هي السحر الوحيد الممكن، فمتى بدأنا نرى معاناتنا كقصة، نكون قد نَجَونا."
Anaïs Nin
"They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy."
"توددوا للوجه على الشاشة، وجه الشفافية، وجه الشمع الذي وجد الرجال فيه إمكانية طبع صورة خيالهم."
Anaïs Nin
"I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously."
Anaïs Nin
"We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself."
Anaïs Nin
"[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing."
Anaïs Nin
"And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight."
Anaïs Nin
"I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me."
Anaïs Nin
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anaïs Nin
"Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again."
Anaïs Nin
"...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer."
Anaïs Nin
"“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”"
Anaïs Nin
"“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”"
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"Her hair was full of lights"
Anaïs Nin
"“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”"
Anaïs Nin
"In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again."
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