That’s the danger of it. It prepares you to live, but at the same time, it exposes you to disappointments because it gives you a heightened concept of living. (….) Art is the prescription for sanity and relief from the terrors and pains of human life.
— From The Diary of Anais Nin. ( today I felt my past like a wearable weight…interfering with the present life. Anais’s diary shows me that this must be the cause for this withdrawal, my closing the doors).
