“I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”

—  Anaïs Nin

March 25, 1933
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

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

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