"Adolescence is like cactus."
"[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind."
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Source: Winter of Artifice. Book by Anais Nin, 1939.
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