Status Updates From Henry ja June

Totally intoxicating. So far, my impression is that Anaïs Nin has a marvelous capacity for something I've personally found very difficult: writing and analyzing and thinking deeply while in the midst of truly unimaginable relationship drama. Taking notes...

“He has made clear the idea of punishment. I take Hugo to the rue Blondel and incite him to infidelity to punish myself for my own infidelities. I glorify June to punish myself for having betrayed her.” I don’t think people understand how profound this self-analysis was

“…you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. And what makes you do that—love? Oh, it is beautiful to love, and to be free at the same time.” get out of my head, get out of my fantasy realm

“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.” and I live by that, no truly I do, check the birth chart!

“After all, if there is an explanation of the mystery it is this: The love between women is a refuge and an escape into harmony. In the love between man and woman there is resistance and conflict. Two women do not judge each other, brutalize each other, or find anything to ridicule. They surrender to sentimentality, mutual understanding, romanticism. Such love is death, I'll admit."

Why does everyone sleeps with everyone in this book