“The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me.”

—  Anaïs Nin, book House of Incest

House of Incest (1936)
Context: The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.

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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977

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