Gabrielle’s Reviews > Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932 > Status Update
Gabrielle
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“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demonic destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.” I sobbed uncontrollably reading this
— Nov 10, 2025 09:41AM
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Gabrielle
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“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
— 2 hours, 15 min ago
Gabrielle
is on page 84 of 274
“…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
— 20 hours, 38 min ago
Gabrielle
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“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!
— 21 hours, 19 min ago
Gabrielle
is on page 33 of 274
“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."
— 21 hours, 21 min ago
Gabrielle
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“Her beauty drowned me. As I sat in front of her I felt that I would do anything mad for her, anything she asked of me. Henry faded. She was color, brilliance, strangeness.” Only a woman could write this about another woman
— Nov 10, 2025 09:38AM
Gabrielle
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“Or is this not the secret of the obstacle between us?— that his type is the large, buxom woman, heavy on the earth, while I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman” - this quote alone has single handedly changed thousands of Tumblrinas lives from around the world
— Nov 09, 2025 12:03AM
