“...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.” MenDesireWomenJournalDiariesErotic Writing Author:Anaïs Nin
“By beginning a diary, I was already conceding that life would be more bearable if I looked at it as an adventure and a tale. I was telling myself the story of a life, and this transmutes into an adventure the things which can shatter you.” DiariesJournal WritingJournals Author:Anaïs Nin
“The women cannot go out except to go to church or to the bullfight, and even that is unusual. I consider it a very ugly custom, and if I couldn't go out as I wished, I would leave this country [Spain], if only because of that one custom of the inhabitants.” CustomsSpainDiariesJournalingAnais Nin1914Malaga Book:The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1 Source: The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1