This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.
The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated ''dose'' o life. I said, almost indignantly, ''That's the danger of it, it prepares you to live, but at the same time, it exposes you to disappointments because it gives a heightened concept of living, it leaves out the dull or stagnant moments. You, in your books, also have a heightened rhythm, and a sequence of events so packed with excitement that I expected all your life to be delirious, intoxicated. ''
Literature is an exaggeration, a dramatization, and those who are nourished on it (as I was) are in great danger of trying to approximate an impossible rhythm. Trying to live up to Dostoevskian scenes every day. And between writers there is a straining after extravagance. We... (查看原文)
June and I have paid with our souls for taking fantasies seriously, for living a life as a theatre, or loving costumes and changes of selves, for wearing masks and disguises. But I know always what is real. Does June? (查看原文)
Anaïs Nin的在日记里写道她在世界中"built for herself an 'image', a 'persona' which enabled her to face the world." "I played roles I felt I was expected to play"，但她在日记里如此真诚，如此智慧，难以想象她在社交场合什么样儿。
Anaïs Nin的在日记里写道她在世界中"built for herself an 'image', a 'persona' which enabled her to face the world." "I played roles I felt I was expected to play"，但她在日记里如此真诚，如此智慧，难以想象她在社交场合什么样儿。
The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated ''dose'' o life. I said, almost indignantly, ''That's the danger of it, it prepares you to live, but at the same time, it exposes you to disappointments because it gives a heightened concept of living, it leaves out the dull or stagnant moments. You, in your books, also have a height...
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The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated ''dose'' o life. I said, almost indignantly, ''That's the danger of it, it prepares you to live, but at the same time, it exposes you to disappointments because it gives a heightened concept of living, it leaves out the dull or stagnant moments. You, in your books, also have a heightened rhythm, and a sequence of events so packed with excitement that I expected all your life to be delirious, intoxicated. ''
Literature is an exaggeration, a dramatization, and those who are nourished on it (as I was) are in great danger of trying to approximate an impossible rhythm. Trying to live up to Dostoevskian scenes every day. And between writers there is a straining after extravagance. We incite each other to jazz-up our rhythm.引自 Vol I
Man can control his destiny, to extent that he becomes aware of these tropisms, but it requires a real initiation, similar to Buddhist discipline which enable disciples to escape their Karma through knowledge.
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Man can control his destiny, to extent that he becomes aware of these tropisms, but it requires a real initiation, similar to Buddhist discipline which enable disciples to escape their Karma through knowledge.引自第74页
...What is my true nature? What is June's? Is mine idealism, spirituality, poetry, imagination, sense of beauty, a need of beauty, a fundamental Rimbaud innocence, a certain purity? I need to create, I hate cruelty. But when I have wanted to go deep into evil, this evil changes as I approach it. Henry and June change as I come near to them. I destroy the worlds I want to enter. I arouse creativ...
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...What is my true nature? What is June's? Is mine idealism, spirituality, poetry, imagination, sense of beauty, a need of beauty, a fundamental Rimbaud innocence, a certain purity? I need to create, I hate cruelty. But when I have wanted to go deep into evil, this evil changes as I approach it. Henry and June change as I come near to them. I destroy the worlds I want to enter. I arouse creativeness in Henry, romanticism in June.
引自第29页
“What makes people despair is that they try to find a universal meaning to the whole life, and then end up by saying it is absurd, illogical, empty of meaning. There is not one big, cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
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“What makes people despair is that they try to find a universal meaning to the whole life, and then end up by saying it is absurd, illogical, empty of meaning. There is not one big, cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
''The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments ot revelation.
2013-07-25 05:58:06
''The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments ot revelation.引自 Vol I
Louveciennes resembles the village where Madame Bovary lived and died. It is old, untouched and unchanged by modern life. It is built on a hill overlooking the Seine. On clear nights one can see Paris. It has an old church dominating a group of small houses, cobblestone streets, and several large properties, manor houses, a castle on the outskirts of the village. One of the properties belonged ...
2013-06-19 04:15:51
Louveciennes resembles the village where Madame Bovary lived and died. It is old, untouched and unchanged by modern life. It is built on a hill overlooking the Seine. On clear nights one can see Paris. It has an old church dominating a group of small houses, cobblestone streets, and several large properties, manor houses, a castle on the outskirts of the village. One of the properties belonged to Madame du Barry. During the revolution her lover was guillotined and his head thrown over the ivy-covered wall into her garten. This is now the property of Coty. 引自第145页
The garden smells of honeysuckle in the summer, of wet leaves in the winter. One hears the whistle of the small train from and to Paris. It is a train which looks ancient, as if it were still carring the personages of Proust's novels to dine in the country.
2013-06-19 04:20:51
The garden smells of honeysuckle in the summer, of wet leaves in the winter. One hears the whistle of the small train from and to Paris. It is a train which looks ancient, as if it were still carring the personages of Proust's novels to dine in the country.引自第151页
I chose the house for many reasons. Because it seemed to have sprouted out of the earth like a tree, so deeply grooved it was within the old garden. It had no cellar and the rooms rested right on the ground. Below the rug, I felt, was the earth. I could take root here, feel at one with the house and the garden, take nourishment from them like the plants.
2013-06-19 04:43:33
I chose the house for many reasons.
Because it seemed to have sprouted out of the earth like a tree, so deeply grooved it was within the old garden. It had no cellar and the rooms rested right on the ground. Below the rug, I felt, was the earth. I could take root here, feel at one with the house and the garden, take nourishment from them like the plants.引自第164页
Man can control his destiny, to extent that he becomes aware of these tropisms, but it requires a real initiation, similar to Buddhist discipline which enable disciples to escape their Karma through knowledge.
2021-10-22 18:15:221人喜欢
Man can control his destiny, to extent that he becomes aware of these tropisms, but it requires a real initiation, similar to Buddhist discipline which enable disciples to escape their Karma through knowledge.引自第74页
...What is my true nature? What is June's? Is mine idealism, spirituality, poetry, imagination, sense of beauty, a need of beauty, a fundamental Rimbaud innocence, a certain purity? I need to create, I hate cruelty. But when I have wanted to go deep into evil, this evil changes as I approach it. Henry and June change as I come near to them. I destroy the worlds I want to enter. I arouse creativ...
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...What is my true nature? What is June's? Is mine idealism, spirituality, poetry, imagination, sense of beauty, a need of beauty, a fundamental Rimbaud innocence, a certain purity? I need to create, I hate cruelty. But when I have wanted to go deep into evil, this evil changes as I approach it. Henry and June change as I come near to them. I destroy the worlds I want to enter. I arouse creativeness in Henry, romanticism in June.
引自第29页
“What makes people despair is that they try to find a universal meaning to the whole life, and then end up by saying it is absurd, illogical, empty of meaning. There is not one big, cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
2021-09-16 16:16:101人喜欢
“What makes people despair is that they try to find a universal meaning to the whole life, and then end up by saying it is absurd, illogical, empty of meaning. There is not one big, cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated ''dose'' o life. I said, almost indignantly, ''That's the danger of it, it prepares you to live, but at the same time, it exposes you to disappointments because it gives a heightened concept of living, it leaves out the dull or stagnant moments. You, in your books, also have a height...
2013-07-27 17:43:511人喜欢
The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated ''dose'' o life. I said, almost indignantly, ''That's the danger of it, it prepares you to live, but at the same time, it exposes you to disappointments because it gives a heightened concept of living, it leaves out the dull or stagnant moments. You, in your books, also have a heightened rhythm, and a sequence of events so packed with excitement that I expected all your life to be delirious, intoxicated. ''
Literature is an exaggeration, a dramatization, and those who are nourished on it (as I was) are in great danger of trying to approximate an impossible rhythm. Trying to live up to Dostoevskian scenes every day. And between writers there is a straining after extravagance. We incite each other to jazz-up our rhythm.引自 Vol I
The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated ''dose'' o life. I said, almost indignantly, ''That's the danger of it, it prepares you to live, but at the same time, it exposes you to disappointments because it gives a heightened concept of living, it leaves out the dull or stagnant moments. You, in your books, also have a height...
0 有用 Cyn 2021-09-22 22:11:07
Anaïs Nin的在日记里写道她在世界中"built for herself an 'image', a 'persona' which enabled her to face the world." "I played roles I felt I was expected to play"，但她在日记里如此真诚，如此智慧，难以想象她在社交场合什么样儿。
0 有用 Cyn 2021-09-22 22:11:07
Anaïs Nin的在日记里写道她在世界中"built for herself an 'image', a 'persona' which enabled her to face the world." "I played roles I felt I was expected to play"，但她在日记里如此真诚，如此智慧，难以想象她在社交场合什么样儿。