"I associate honesty with loss of love. The only people I had known who were honest, beligerent, assertive, undisguised had lost love. I was not going to risk that. There was the fear of the world. I had seen destructive relationships, destructive journalism, destructive critics, destructive wars. I felt the world to be a rather dangerous place. I did not feel ready to confront this. I needed a shelter for my work. The diary was a fine one. A shelter from misunderstanding, from satire, from attack, from judgement."
?Anias Nin

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