"Adolescence is like cactus."
"He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul."
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Source: Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”
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