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“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

“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

“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

“In all of us there is human weakness. The friend is the one who goes out to strengthen this weakness, but not to attack it.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944