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“I was not travelling away from human life, I was seeking my own fulfillment. Searching for heightened moments uninterrupted by life’s daily exigencies.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944

“I don’t look back with any pleasure at the sacrifices I made. I consider it time wasted. Whereas I do not think it time wasted to be idle, to dream, to play. Very much the contrary, I think.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944

“For the first time I have conquered restlessness, my imagination does not wander to all the far places towards all the far strangers, questing, expecting what? For the first time my body and soul are together, and the sound of a window closing, a door closing, is no more alarming than the wings of an icon closing over a figure praying.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944

“The enormous difference between the relationships you need, and the one you deeply want. The need is created out of an accumulation of negativities, planted by traumatic experiences: fear, doubts, anxiety, dependence, weakness in certain realms, inadequacy, incompleteness. A certain relationship can remove the fear, calm anxiety, supply a certain completion, replace a loss, fulfill an organic insufficiency, lull an insecurity, supply a substitute love.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944