Anais Nin becomes friends with the actress Luise Rainer, who reminds her of June Miller. By the way, Luise turned 102 in January, 2012.
Anais describes Luise as follows: "She is unconscious of her tangled hair, likes her face washed of make-up, has no desire to present to the world off stage the mask of the actress, the false eyelashes, the redesigned mouth. She will not be an actress in life. I see a conflict between the woman and the actress. She wants to act out projections of her self, to be herself on stage, and not become other women. She seeks extensions of herself."
Luise is unhappy because of the demands and expectations she feels from others. I think we all feel these conflicts between what we think the world wants from us and what we want from life. In a way, we are all actors and actresses when we present to the world one side of ourselves, but in private, we are another person. Why do we do this? Why can't the inner and outer person be one in the same?
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