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1 " One of Anaïs’ journals expresses her concerns that she is different from others in that she feels like more than one person: “I have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I see it as a disease, a proliferation as dangerous as cancer. My first concept about people around me was that all of them were coordinated into a whole, whereas I was made up of a multitude of selves, of fragments. "
― Hourly History , Anaïs Nin: A Life From Beginning to End
2 " Despite her fears of abandonment, Anaïs continued to see Hugo, hoping that they would get married yet wondering if they would be happy together. In a diary entry on September 15, 1922, she wrote, “Hugo is human. . . . I must learn to fashion my dreams out of clay, to descend in order to rise, because I am repudiating the human, I am repudiating the roots of divinity. What is is what I must learn to love.” By giving up her childish dreams of perfection, Anaïs felt that she had become a woman, ready for marriage. "
