“The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.”
Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love
Source: A Spy in the House of Love (1954)
“That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves”
— C.G. Jung, book Symbols of Transformation
Source: Symbols of Transformation
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