Mañana

“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her.”

Anaïs Nin

She  was  young  enough  and  inexperienced  enough  to  make  many  demands  upon  life -  that  it  should  be  romantic,  that  it  should,  in  the  issues  that  it  presented,  be  honest  and  open  and  clear,  that  it  should  allow  her  to  settle  her  own  place  in  it  without  any  hurt  to  anyone  else,  that  it  should,  in  fact,  arrange  any  number  of  compromises  to  suit  herself  and  that  it  should  nevertheless  be  so  honest  that  it  would  admit  of  no  compromises  at  all.  She  approached  life  with  all  the  reckless  boldness  of  one  who  has  never  come  into  direct  contact  with  it.

Hugh Walpole, The Duchess of Wrexe