We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
Lillian was reminded of the talmudic words: “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
― Anaïs Nin, 1932
Lillian was reminded of the talmudic words: “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Seduction of the Minotaur, 1961
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
The dream has to be translated into reality.
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
She took off her dress. She had long black hair, a pale face, slanted green eyes, greener than the sea. She was beautifully formed, with high breasts, long legs, a stylized body. She knew how to swim better than any other woman on the island. She slid into the water and began her long easy strokes towards Evelyn.
Anais Nin, Mallorca