" Yes, Anaïs, I want to demask you. I am too gallant with you. I want to look at you long and ardently, pick up your dress, fondle you, examine you. Do you know I have scarcely looked at you? There is still too much sacredness clinging to you. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953