DUCHESS RAPHÁ

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry  

the world is heartbreaking every day and the world is beautiful every day and we have to pay attention to both

Your normal day is someone's dream,So be thankful every day.

James Baldwin on Art

art, intimacy, romance.

—  Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller featured in A Literate Passion: Letters Of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller (1932 - 1953)

My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure. I create a myth and a legend, a lie, a fairy tale, a magical world, and one that collapses every day and makes me feel like going the way of Virginia Woolf. I have tried to be not neurotic, not romantic, not destructive, but may be all of these in disguises.

— Emily Dickinson

— Sigmund Freud 

-Anaïs Nin, 1939