Reads tagged with “diaries”
George Orwell on Money, Taxes, the Government, and the Real Measure of Patriotism
“Towards the government I feel no scruples and would dodge paying the tax if I could. Yet I would give my life for England readily enough, if I thought it necessary.”
19-Year-Old Sylvia Plath on the Transcendent Splendor of Nature
“No matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.”
Thoreau on the Greatest Gift of Growing Old
How happiness feeds on the hard-earned blessing of making fewer apologies for our existence.
Young Hans Christian Andersen’s Breathtaking Account of Climbing Mount Vesuvius During an Eruption
“The sea raised its great wings, coal black smoke arose from Vesuvius into the blue sky…”
William S. Burroughs on Creativity
“The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.”
Albert Camus on Happiness and Love, Illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton
“If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them … they could perceive what they have made of us.”
Anaïs Nin on Reproductive Rights: A Prescient Perspective from 1940
“Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.”
Joyce Carol Oates on Consciousness, Wonder, and the Art of Beholding Beauty
“How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.”
Anaïs Nin on Love and Life, Illustrated
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
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