"Adolescence is like cactus."
"Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise."
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Source: The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939). Book by Anais Nin, 1970.
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