“There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned”
Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus
Variant: There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.
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For the film adaptation, see Delta of Venus Delta of Venus is a book of fifteen short stories by Anaïs Nin published posthumously in 1977—though largely written in the 1940s as erotica for a private collector.In 1994 a film inspired by the book was directed by Zalman King.
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As quoted in D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers (1996) by Leo Hamalian, p. 90
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“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”
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“Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.”
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“He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.”
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“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
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