Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of … - Anais Nin

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My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

Anais Nin

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

Essential, Essentials, Keeping, Life, Vitality, Writing

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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

Appearance, Exactly, Incessant, Pride, Talent, Worry

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

Everything, Explore, Prejudice, Prejudices, Protection, Weak

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

Act, Fate, Personally, Teamwork, War, Wars

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

Believe, Healing, Lasting, Revolution

That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.

Essentials, Fusion, Heighten, Sought, Write, Writing

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