Incest: From a Journal of Love

by Anais Nin
United States
21 Feb 1903 // 14 Jan 1977
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To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

Incest: From a Journal of Love
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

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