In this entry of her Diary, Anais Nin speaks of how everything is divided into warm or cold. Warm people, like Anais, respond to others and are able to make personal sacrifices for them. Cold people, like Henry, respond out of selfishness, an instinct to reserve the self. Cold people are disconnected from human spontaneity, human feeling, pity, sympathy. Anais feels that she is never cut off, never disconnected. On the other hand, she identifies herself with Don Juan, always wanting to be at the beginning of a relationship, when everything is high and smooth and beautiful, before it starts a natural deterioration. The struggle is in the balancing act and how to be in a long-term relationship, feel empathy for the other person, yet still be an individual.
Gonzalo is fighting for Communism, and Anais, usually one to avoid politics, finds herself caught between the individual world and the collective world. In the past, she has wanted to avoid being a part of a mass movement, but now she begins to understand what Gonzalo is doing, even though at times she feels as though its a lost cause. Should she continue to dream, or should she accept what is real?
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