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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.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me na�ve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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