Self Portraits. E1. Underground Room. London. Summer 2013

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin

                             Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
                                     Anais Nin

                       I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
                                 Anais Nin

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
                                  Anais Nin

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
                                    Anais Nin 

“But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.” 
― Clarice Lispector, Stream Of Life

Anyone who has experienced a state of grace will know what I'm talking about. I am not referring to inspiration.
Clarice Lispector

    Do you know that hope sometimes consists only in a question without an    answer?
                                Clarice Lispector

          And I didn't know that danger is what makes life precious.
                                Clarice Lispector

      I miss the people I didn't say goodbye to, the things I let go, who I had         but didn't want to.
Clarice Lispector

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