“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
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“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
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“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
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“Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”
― Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
― Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”
― Handle with Care
― Handle with Care
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