#themes torment

All this torments me and paralyzes me.

Anaïs Nin, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953

Don’t you see what torture that is? And no matter what she says, not even if she swears by her mother’s sacred blood, can I be sure of her.

Henry Miller,A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953