Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.
Anais NinThe value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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