Anais Nin's three favorite authors and some of her notes on them from this volume of her Diary:
Fyodor Dostoevsky - writes of a constant passion between people; studies the exaltations of instinct and impulses, the dangers of emotional passions; is occupied by the question of jealousy which brings a suffering not complicated by a feeling of hatred for the rival; seems to establish in the human soul a kind of stratification.
D.H. Lawrence - gives instinct a language; uses the phrase "livingness" to describe mobility, ease, flowingness of a person; speaks of people being "all rosy and healthy on the outside, but all ashes inside" when they hide anxieties and fears; describes intellectuals as being "all up in the head."
Marcel Proust - studies love's fragmentations; analyzes love's disintegrations and the malady of doubt and jealousy; his is the book to read at the seashore - the wavelike rhythm of his phrases are like waves of the sea; refines nuances of relationships.
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