Rhea’s Reviews > Diary Of Anais Nin Volume 2 1934-1939: Vol. 2 > Status Update

”When I am ejected from the ordinary world I must not lament. I must enter very boldly into my world, with the feelings I have, eyes open, alone.”

“That which dies in modern man never dies in me, because my senses are alive, married to my feelings and to meaning, because my earth has roots in the infinite. It is the emptiness of their sensations which causes ennui.”

“I have learned to do without this human warmth, to accept these floating icebergs, these remote non-human species like my father.
To live in fantasy without human closeness.”

“I am restless and impatient in my analyst’s chair. Once more I reach the same conclusion. You cannot help others to live. They live on their own power for a while, and then soon start looking for another leader, support, crutch”