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To make absolute, unconditional surrender to the woman one loves is to break every bond save the desire not to lose her, which is the most terrible bond of all.

Sexus
To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth�I count that something of a miracle.

Tropic of Cancer
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.

The Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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)
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)
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)
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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