"There were always in me two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning, and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest." --Anais Nin
"While the world watched with fascination the gay, charming, intelligent, mysterious Anais, the other women--the shy, the strong, the practical, the unsure, the observing, the detached, the childish--clamored for recognition in the pages of the diary. It is the gathering place of her fragmented self, her retreat from the demands of living." -- in the introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann of Volume I of The Diary of Anais Nin
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