“You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt?”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity...”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are rushing toward him, the magic power of meeting, exactly at midnight to achieve union, the illusion of one common rhythm achieved by overcoming obstacles, deserting friends, breaking other bonds - all this was soon dissolved by his laziness, by his habit of missing every moment, of never keeping his word, of living perversely in a state of chaos, of swimming more naturally in a sea of failed intentions, broken promises, and aborted wishes”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“I didn't leave because I wanted to. I left because I had to.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the sea where even the trails become thoughtful.”
“In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins besides blood is the distillation of every act committed, the sediment of all the visions, wishes, dreams and experiences. All the past emotions converge to tint the skin and flavor the lips, to regulate the pulse and produce crystals in the eyes.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel