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I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless w...

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She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.

I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved...

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Anaïs NinThe Diary of Anaïs Nin

You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does...

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A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?

It's my diary", she'd explained. "Every mark I've had drawn on my skin connects me to where and who ...

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It is entirely conceivable that life's splendour forever lies in wait about each one of us in all it...

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Franz KafkaThe Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923

You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress ...

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Frida KahloThe Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to sa...

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Besides, who is to say that the feelings he writes in his diary are his true feelings? Who is to say...

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DEAR DI­ARYYou are greater than the BibleAnd the Con­fer­ence of the BirdsAnd the Up­an­ishadsAll pu...

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I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I sh...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

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Spalding GrayThe Journals of Spalding Gray

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy wear...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

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Virginia WoolfThe Diary of Virginia Woolf

Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though,...

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Virginia WoolfThe Diary of Virginia Woolf

I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hil...

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Virginia WoolfThe Diary of Virginia Woolf

The immense success of our life, is I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common...

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Virginia WoolfThe Diary of Virginia Woolf

The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind...

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In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity...

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Alice JamesThe Diary of Alice James