"One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. But paradoxically, we create fiction out of human concern for the victims of the revelations. This concern is at the root of literature."
Anaïs Nin

January 1, 1970

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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5

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