"Adolescence is like cactus."
"I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life."
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Source: Fire : From A Journal of Love : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937. Book by Anaïs Nin, 1995.
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