“For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds…”

—  Anaïs Nin

February, 1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Source: Fire: 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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