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Did Nin feel guilty about any of this? If so, she had a ready excuse: she was an artist, and artists didn’t follow rules. Hugo agreed, writing in his own journal that Anais was “not merely an artist. She is the definition of art. Therefore, she cannot make mistakes. Whatever she does with that instinct burning in her, and it burns unceasingly, an immortal flame, is right, becomes right, for it is she who does it.
— nin (via melissa.tumblr.com)
