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“Woman brings pain. Woman is evil. There are no exceptions. I tell you, even the angels are liars. What does Proust say? “We lie all our lives, and more especially, only perhaps, to those whom we love.” Open your Proust. I have underlined it for you.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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“I want to make the feminine scar. Helen of Troy was, after all, unfecundable. She was one of the rigid ones, like [Virginia] Woolf and [Rebecca] West.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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“I have come to the conclusion that the use and knowledge of words acts sometimes as a stumbling block rather than a clarifier.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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“It astonishes me how delicately you can make distinctions between women. There was a marvellous paragraph on that. Among one hundred women you will distinguish five. It is more than Don Juan ever did.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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“You make me think of Casanova, except that in between the erotic, Casanova was boring, while you, in between eroticism and even because of it, you get profound.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Humor is My Genre — 170 members — last activity Feb 28, 2023 07:18AM
Novels that entertain, bring a smile or a laugh to the reader. They can be any genre, mystery, history, gothic, etc or any theme, but the books must h ...more

NAGW Book Club — 158 members — last activity Sep 26, 2017 09:48AM
The desire to communicate and learn with fellow web professionals in other city and county governments is nothing new. NAGW is the National Associatio ...more