Quotes from bookA Spy in the House of Love
A Spy in the House of Love is a novel by Anaïs Nin published in 1954. Alongside her other novels, Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart and Seduction of the Minotaur, which were all first published in the United States between the 1940s and 1960s, A Spy in the House of Love was gathered into a collection of her novels known as Cities of the Interior.
Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love
Variant: We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.
Source: A Spy in the House of Love
“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)
“I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.”
Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love
Source: A Spy in the House of Love
