1186"You have
my heart.
And I could
analyze
that —
but I
won’t.
For it
stands
so
unbearably
complete
on
its own." - Frida Kahlo, from The Diary Of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
my heart.
And I could
analyze
that —
but I
won’t.
For it
stands
so
unbearably
complete
on
its own." - Frida Kahlo, from The Diary Of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
466"I have tried so hard to love, and I can, up to a certain point, and then no further." - Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
175"Everything is, unbelievingly, unfolding into another spring, when the damn world makes us think we are as young as we ever were and deceives us by pale lucid skies and the sudden opening of little leaves." - Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals
239"I feel stifled, weak, pallid and utterly absurd." - Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals
134"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die." - Søren Kierkegaard, from Journals
104"It is always the big, impersonal spaces which frighten me, the vast deserts, universe, cosmologies. How small my guiding lantern, how vast man’s universe. It seems to me that what I hang on to is the human, and personal. I do not want to enter impersonal, non-human worlds." - Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
256"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone. Because I am the subject I know best." - Frida Kahlo
120"We were walking together over dead leaves crackling like paper. She was weeping over the end of a cycle. How one must be thrust over a finished cycle in life, and that leap the most difficult to make — to part with one’s faith, one’s love when one would prefer to renew faith and re-create the passion. The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelation of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might lean as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle against diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end, in our cursedly repercussive being. Her tears were glowing and I was happy! Happy! I was happy; I was glimpsing inside her soul. Right at that moment. She was also glimpsing into mine." - Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
211"Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." - Katherine Mansfield, from The Journal Of Katherine Mansfield
288"There are things I’d rather whisper and never quite say out loud." - Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 20 July 1938
298"I had to set up a barrage of self-protecting lies. I needed to protect my real self from people; they not only betrayed me but also distorted my personality. And now you, you give me strength. You are calm and strong, and really know me. You don’t need experience. You were born knowing. Knowing the world, knowing the biggest parts of me. You have all I need; an understanding without need of facts, realities. I have done the vilest things, foulest things, but I have done them superbly, and I feel I have passed through them, I feel intact, I feel innocent. You understand that. You have an intuition. What does it matter what I do, it is what I am that matters." - Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
377"I may be basically good, human, loving, but I am also more than that, imaginatively dual, complex, an illusionist. I only feel close to people who arouse my energy, who make enormous demands of me, who are capable of enriching me with experience, pain, people who do not doubt my courage, or my toughness. People who do not believe me naive or innocent, but who challenge my keenest wisdom, who have the courage to treat me like a woman in spite of the fact that they are aware of my vulnerability." - Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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