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The Diary of Anais Nin

What I like best about myself ..is my audacity,

my courage. The ways I have found to be true to

myself without causing too much pain or damage..

What I hate so much is my vanity, my need to shine,

my need of applause and my sentimentality. I would

like to be harder. I cannot make a joke, make fun

of anyone, without feeling regrets.

The diary was once a disease. I do not take it up

now for the same reasons. Before it was because

I was lonely , or because I did not know how to

communicate with others. I needed the communion.

Now it is to write , not for solace but for the pleasure

of describing others, out of abundance.

I have not been unaware of the political drama

going on, but I have not taken any sides because

politics to me, all of them seem rotten to the core

and all based on economics , not humanitarianism.

The suffering of the word seemed to me without

remedy except by what we could give individually.

I did not trust any movement or system...

...nothing changes the nature of man. I know too

well that man can only change himself psychologically,

and that fear and greed make him inhuman, and it

is only a change of roles we attain with each revolution,

just a change of men in power, that is all, the evil remains.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Anais Nin
Volume Two

(1934-1939)

O erotismo é uma das bases do conhecimento de nós próprios,

tão indispensável como a poesia.

Anais Nin

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