Quotes About Anais

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

I guess I am disturbed only because so little strains through the meshes and I am thinking in such violent floods.

Perhaps, said the Doctor pensively. It may also be that you Americans are work-cultists, and work is the structure that holds you up, not the joy of pure living.

then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

So many Anaïses you have shown me—and now this one—as if to prove your protean versatility.

Remind me to show you something on "Decadence" from Havelock Ellis' Introduction to [J. K. Huysmans']Against the Grain. You will like it.

To retreat is not feminine, male, or trickery. It is a terror before utter destruction.

Ri, Anaïs», diz Fred. «Henry diz que adora ouvir-te rir, que tu és a única mulher que possui o sentido da alegria, uma tolerância comedida»

Anaïs, it makes me weep, your Journal. It makes me love you beyond words.

Can you read this ink, made of distilled Andalusian blood?

Reading Albertine Disparue

Have been reading Spengler exultantly. I never expected to experience such a sense of wonder, of vastness and richness.

The liberation of the instincts, of the inchoate etc. (except that with Lawrence it is restricted to the sexual problem and Dostoevsky was larger).

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.