This diary entry contains excerpts from many of the letters Anais Nin has received as a result of publication of her diaries. Her work consists of freeing people emotionally, helping people understand each other, and avoiding hatred and war. People are responding to her by the thousands.
She writes: "There was no ego in the Diary, there was only a voice which spoke for thousands, made links, bonds, friendships. All the clichés about self-absorption were destroyed. There was no one self. We were all one. The more I developed my self, the less mine it became. If all of us were as willing to expose this self, we would feel neither alone nor unique. I was so tired of the platitudes hurled at me. The two most misinterpreted words in the world: narcissism and ego. The simple truth was that some of us recognized the need to develop, grow, expand - occupations which are the opposite of those two words. To desire to grow means you are not satisfied with the self as it is, and the ego is exacting, not indulgent."
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