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I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
Henry and June: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana�s Nin (1931-1932)
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
Henry and June: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana�s Nin (1931-1932)
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
Henry and June: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana�s Nin (1931-1932)
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Henry and June: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana�s Nin (1931-1932)
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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