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When one is pretending the entire body revolts. - Anaïs Nin

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. – Anaïs Nin

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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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