“I love your silences, they are like mine.”

—  Anaïs Nin, book Under a Glass Bell

"Je suis le plus malade des Surrealistes"
Source: Under a Glass Bell (1944)
Context: I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.

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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977

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