Anaïs Nin: Frases em inglês (página 2)
Frases em inglês.“The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5, as quoted in Moving to Antarctica : An Anthology of Women's Writing (1975) by Margaret Kaminski
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Contexto: The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.
February 1947 The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 4 (1944-1947), p. 185
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
Fonte: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
“Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.”
November 26, 1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Contexto: This abdiction of life demanded of the artist is to be achieved only relatively. Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
March 1937
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Fonte: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Fonte: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
“Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.”
Fonte: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
D. H. Lawrence : An Unprofessional Study (1932); also quoted in The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin (1971) by Evelyn J. Hinz, p. 40