«Qué es el amor sino la aceptación del otro, sea quien sea»
Anaïs Nin
«No tengo dinero ni recursos ni esperanzas.
Soy el hombre más feliz del mundo»
(Henry Miller)
(Henry Miller)
Henry to Anais-March 21, 1932
Anais, I don’t know how to tell you what I feel.
I live in perpetual expectancy.
You come and the time slips away in a dream.
It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence.
And then it is too late. You numb me. […]
This is a little drunken, Anais.
I am saying to myself «here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere.»
I remember your saying -«you could fool me. I wouldn’t know it.»
When I walk along the boulevards and think of that.
I can’t fool you – and yet I would like to.
I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal – it’s not in me.
I live in perpetual expectancy.
You come and the time slips away in a dream.
It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence.
And then it is too late. You numb me. […]
This is a little drunken, Anais.
I am saying to myself «here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere.»
I remember your saying -«you could fool me. I wouldn’t know it.»
When I walk along the boulevards and think of that.
I can’t fool you – and yet I would like to.
I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal – it’s not in me.
I love women, or life, too much – which it is, I don’t know.
But laugh, Anais, I love to hear you laugh.
You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety,
But laugh, Anais, I love to hear you laugh.
You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety,
a wise tolerance – no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. […]
I don’t know what to expect of you, butit is something in the way of a miracle.
I am going to demand everything of you – even the impossible, because you encourage it.
You are really strong.
I even like your deceit, your treachery.
It seems aristocratic to me.
I don’t know what to expect of you, butit is something in the way of a miracle.
I am going to demand everything of you – even the impossible, because you encourage it.
You are really strong.
I even like your deceit, your treachery.
It seems aristocratic to me.
Anais to Henry-March 26, 1932
This is strange, Henry.
Before, as soon as I came home
from all sorts of places I would sit down and write in my journal.
Now I want to write you, talk with you. […]
I love when you say all that happens is good, it is good.
I love when you say all that happens is good, it is good.
I say all that happens is wonderful.
For me it is all symphonic, and I am so aroused by living
– God, Henry, in you alone I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm,
the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness, the the fullness …
Before, i almost used to think there was something wrong.
Before, i almost used to think there was something wrong.
Everybody else seemed to have the brakes on. […] I never feel the brakes.
I overflow. And when I feel your excitement about life flaring, next to mine,
then it makes me dizzy.
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