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“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
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“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
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“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”
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“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”
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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
Desiree’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Desiree’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Chick-lit, Cookbooks, Fiction, Memoir, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Self help, Spirituality, and Young-adult
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