Anaïs Nin

Ela:

"I want to burn, even if I break myself. I live only for ecstasy. Nothing else effects me. Small doses, moderate loves- all these leave me cold. I like extravagance, heat... sexuality which bursts the thermometer! I am neurotic, perverted, destructive, fiery, dangerous- lava, inflammable, unrestrained. I feel like a jungle animal who is escaping captivity."

Eu:

"Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful.
I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith...
I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe.
I can still love passionately without believing....
I wept because I have lost my pain and am not yet accustomed to its absence."