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She felt heightened in her own eyes, while knowing this sensation was not different from drunkenness, and that it would vanish like the ecstasies of drink, leaving her the next day even more shaky, even weaker at the core, deflated, possessing nothing within herself.

Anaïs Nin

A Spy in the House of Love

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Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.

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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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