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From The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume One:
"I have the done the vilest things, foulest things, but I have done them superbly, and I feel I have passed through them, I feel intact, I feel innocent."
(June speaking, p.136)
"I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life."
"Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you."
(p.185)
He watched the waiter and winced at a few drops of water spilled on the tablecloth. As a child I had the obscure feeling that this man could never be satisfied.
(p.236)
My father said I angered him as a child because he felt I had a whole world of secret thoughts which I would not, or could not express, that I lied like an Arab, and that I was high-tempered. But I explained to him that the feeling I had was that no one was interested, and also that what I invented constantly was fantasy, and that when I tried to tell of it, people always said: "You are lying." It was an invented world I lived in, and I was afraid to have it destroyed.
(p.238)