Anaïs Nin, Henry And June: From "A Journal Of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary Of Anaïs Nin Quotes

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.

I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. But I am more preoccupied with loving.

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

Our age has need of violence, " he writes. And he is violence.

The relief of opening one's hand and letting go was immense. But soon after, I tightened again. A desire for revenge, a strange revenge.

Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.