But there was another truth she was now truly aware of. Something had created in her a state of perpetual defense against the very possibilities of experience, an urge for flight which took her away from the senses of pleasure and expansion. She had stood many times on the very edge, and then had run away. She herself was to blame for what she had lost, ignored.
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Leila alone was satisfied to be born free of man’s tyranny, to be free of man. But she did not realize that imitating man, was not being free of him.
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- Anais Nin; Delta of Venus
Shit is about to get real.
