quoth the madman


"The enormous difference between the relationships you need, and the one you deeply want. The need is created out of an accumulation of negativities, planted by traumatic experiences: fear, doubts, anxiety, dependence, weakness in certain realms, inadequacy, incompleteness. A certain relationship can remove the fear, calm anxiety, supply a certain completion, replace a loss, fulfill an organic insufficiency, lull an insecurity, supply a substitute love. But it may not be the love one would want if free of all these negativities."

- Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944

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