March 1935
I avoid all clinical language because as a writer I believe language has power. I also take much trouble to describe each character, each motivation as unique, not to give the patients the feelings of being classified.
Science may heal, but it is the poetic illumination of life which makes my patients fall in love with life, which makes them recover their appetite for it. I avoid all labels and the hospital atmosphere.
You can find this excerpt in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1934-1939, available at Bookshop.org.
"I avoid all labels and the hospital atmosphere". Thank you Anaïs