“If anyone had opened his arms to me, I would have wept like a child.”
— Albert Camus, Death in the Soul
i love you so bad but maybe it wasn't meant to be?
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“I am always between two worlds, always in conflict. I would like sometimes to rest, to be at peace, to choose a nook, make a final choice, but I can't. Some nameless, undescribable fear and anxiety keeps me on the move. On certain evenings like this, I would like to feel whole. Only a half of me is sitting by the fire.”
— Anaïs Nin, from “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934.”
“You won’t have to cry anymore…”
“He fell into a trance, and was enveloped in absolute horror.”
Joaquín Nin, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940
Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “The first line is the deepest”