Reads tagged with “diaries”
No Dream-Laden Adolescent: Anaïs Nin Meets Young Gore Vidal, 1945
“Like all writers, he dreams of total acceptance, unanimous love. A dream.”
Anaïs Nin on Self-Publishing, the Magic of Letterpress, and the Joy of Handcraft
“You pit your faculties against concrete problems. The victories are concrete, definable, touchable.”
Anaïs Nin on Why Understanding the Individual is the Key to Understanding Mass Movements
“Every individual is representative of the whole, a symptom, and should be intimately understood.”
A List of “Rare Things” From 11th-Century Japanese Court Lady Sei Shonagon, World’s First Blogger
“Two women, let alone a man and a woman, who vow themselves to each other forever, and actually manage to remain on good terms to the end.”
Anaïs Nin on Life, Hand-Lettered by Artist Lisa Congdon
“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”
Anaïs Nin on Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Creativity
“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
Susan Sontag’s List of Rules and Duties for Being 24
“Don’t criticize publicly anyone at Harvard.”
An Institution Committed to the Dulling of the Feelings: Susan Sontag on Marriage
“Marriage is based on the principle of inertia.”
Charles Darwin’s List of the Pros and Cons of Marriage
“My God, it is intolerable to think of spending one’s whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, & nothing after all.”
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