“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.”

— Anaïs Nin

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

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

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