Anais Nin needs just one person that she can be totally truthful with and receive the same in return, and she wants it to be her father. She is disappointed he seems unable to do this for her and even refuses to admit that he is not being truthful. If she had been able to confide in her father, she would not have had to seek out a psychoanalyst, she says. If only he could take off the mask he wears, give up his artificiality, they could achieve a deep understanding, build a strong human relationship. She feels that if her father can't be this person, she must resort again to the Diary.
How often we expect one person to be everything for us. How often we hope people give to us what we do not give back, although we promise to give it back if they give it to us first.
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