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Book: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
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  1. Anaïs Nin _ The Four-Chambered Heart: V3

    No privacy left. No manners.
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  2. Anaïs Nin _ The Four-Chambered Heart: V3

    Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wanted to assert itself in action.
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  3. Anaïs Nin _ The Four-Chambered Heart: V3

    Paul, Paul, this is the claim you never made, the fervor you never showed. You were so cool and light, so elusive, and I never felt you encircling me and claiming possession. Rango is saying all the words I wanted to hear you say. You never came close to me, even while taking me. You took me as men take foreign women in distant countries whose language they cannot speak. You took me in silence and strangeness.
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  4. Anaïs Nin _ The Four-Chambered Heart: V3

    Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.
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  5. Anaïs Nin _ The Four-Chambered Heart: V3

    Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain people and expands them beyond all laws; there is no time, no place for regrets, hesitations, cowardices. Love runs free and reckless, and all the gentle trickeries perpetrated to protect others from its burns-those who are not the lovers but who might be the victims of this love's expansion.
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  6. Anaïs Nin _ The Four-Chambered Heart: V3

    No moment of charm without long roots in the past, no moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sorrows, growths, and efforts.
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  7. Anaïs Nin _ The Four-Chambered Heart: V3

    I am sure you would not understand if I told you my father is delightfully clear and selfish, tender and lying, formal and incurable. He exhausts all the loves given to him. If I did not leave his house at night to warm myself in Rango's burning hands I would die at my task, arid and barren, sapless, while my father monologues about his past, and I yawn yawn yawn...
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  8. Anaïs Nin _ The Four-Chambered Heart: V3

    Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everything, not to love, but to his games of love; and when you love as a game, you lose everything, as he lost his home and wife, and now he clings to me, afraid of loss, afraid of solitude.
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  9. Anaïs Nin _ The Four-Chambered Heart: V3

    But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...
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  10. Anaïs Nin _ The Four-Chambered Heart: V3

    The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at the present instant of encounter but a summation of his entire being which gives off this powerful drug capturing the fancy and attachment.
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  11. Anaïs Nin _ The Four-Chambered Heart: V3

    No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides children, so many invisible births, exchanges of soul and character, blossoming of unknown selves, liberation of hidden treasures, buried fantasies...
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  12. Anaïs Nin _ The Four-Chambered Heart: V3

    No moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sorrows, growths, and efforts.
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