“My body needs it?the hot baths, the care, the soft water, the perfume, the warmth. I take on the colors of the flowers, the bloom, the delicacy. It becomes me.”
? Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diaries of Anais Nin 1939-47
Portrait of Anais Nin, c.1942. Soichi Sunami. Gelatin silver.
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.” – Anais Nin.