Chiles Samaniego

“Films are like a dose of opium, then as you come out in the street it’s a shock, and you are brutally awakened from your dream. But when you stay, you never wake up. The dream goes on working. I would fall asleep for a while and then see images on the screen, and I could not tell the difference between the film and a dream.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

“Perhaps there is nothing at all, perhaps the mystery is that there is no mystery at all. Perhaps she is empty, and there is no June at all.” “But, Henry, how can an empty woman have such a vivid presence, how can an empty woman cause insomnia, awaken so many curiosities? How could an empty woman cause other women to take flight, as you tell me, abdicating immediately before her?”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

“I would not be concerned with the secrets, the lies, the mysteries, the facts. I would be concerned with what makes them necessary. What fear.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

“She only believed in intimacy and proximity, in confessions born in the darkness of a bedroom, in quarrels born of alcohol, in communions born of exhausting walks through the city. She only believed in those words which came like the confessions of criminals after long exposure to hunger, to intense lights, to cross-questioning, to violent tearing away of masks.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934