Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin Quotes

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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.

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two beings. When I return to Hugo in the evening, to the peace and warmth of the house, I return with deep contentment, as if this was the only condition for...

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

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

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

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

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

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.

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I also hate Dutch paintings, penis-sucking, parties,...

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do ...

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table where I wait for him, or opens the gate to our house, the sight of him is sufficient to exult me. No letter from anyone, even in praise of my book, can s...

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and...

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

By the end of the evening I was like a man, terribly in love with her face and body, which promised so much, and I hated the self created in her by others. Others feel because of her; and because of her, others write poetry; because of her, others ha...

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

That last afternoon in Henry's hotel room was for me like a white-hot furnace. Before, I had only white heat of the mind and of the imagination; now it is of the blood. Sacred completeness. I come out dazed in the mellow spring evening and I think, n...

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

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

Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin