"Adolescence is like cactus."
"If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men."
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Source: Fire : From A Journal of Love : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937. Book by Anais Nin, 1995.
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