
On the message of her music album Temple in "DIVA chats to Thao Nguyen all about her new record, coming out to the world and Zoom music video magic" in Diva (29 May 2020) https://divamag.co.uk/2020/05/29/music-an-interview-with-thao-nguyen/
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
On the message of her music album Temple in "DIVA chats to Thao Nguyen all about her new record, coming out to the world and Zoom music video magic" in Diva (29 May 2020) https://divamag.co.uk/2020/05/29/music-an-interview-with-thao-nguyen/
“If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.”
“All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence.”
As quoted in Mishima : A Life in Four Chapters (1985).
Context: All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
Statement to Parliament (4 February 1658) quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 466
Obituary http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-joseph-1387217.html, The Independent, Monday 12 December 1994.
1990s
On the fate of his friend Lion Nordheim, who was executed ten days before the end of the war, and his own release at around the same time, p. 52
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
Context: On the day we were caught, Lion and I had been talking about writing a memorandum on the fate of the Jewish war children living in hiding or among Dutch families … we were the representatives of the Zionist youth organization. … Lion who had been taking notes of the discussion, put these papers in his jacket pocket when he took a break from lunch. When the Germans caught us they discovered his notes. If those papers had been in my pocket I would have never lived to be seventy. I have led a strange life, a set of complete coincidences.
Quoted in Albert Jay Nock's Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943), p. 54.
Attributed
Psyche
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956)
Context: The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
“I had to be on my own, just so that I would not feel as alone.”
Source: Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993), p. 201