🧩 Philosophy Jul 1, 2026 · Maria Popova

How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully

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How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully
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“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

“When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist,” Henry Miller wrote in his stunning letter to Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903–January 14, 1977). “Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance.”
But we, the controlling species, the conquering species, have a hard time wit

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