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November 18, 2011 at 1:29 PM

I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.

—  Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1920-1923

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