Gabrielle’s Reviews > Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932 > Status Update

“…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!

“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

“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

“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

I did not find this book, this book found me