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Night. The stars and the moon impassive, undisturbed, eternal. A little of their impassivity flows into me. They are consoling. They reduce the intensity and acuteness of human sorrow. I feel less strangled, less oppressed.

—Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944 (via monsieurleprince)

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