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“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

“Man seems powerless to face the truth or the relative truth stripped of all adornment.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944

“There was in me confusion between love and devotion. I thought all my acts were acts of love, yielding up of the self, the personal. But I did feel hurt that they were all willing to immolate me, and felt unloved according to my own definition of love: sacrifice.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944