Anaïs Nin

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Anaïs Nin

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born
in Neuilly, France
February 21, 1903

died
January 14, 1977

gender
female

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French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer, who gained international fame with her journals. Spanning the years from 1931 to 1974, they give an account of one woman's voyage of self-discovery. "It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all." (from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. I, 1966)

Anaïs Nin was largely ignored until the 1960s. Today she is regarded as one of the leading women writers of the 20th-century and a source of inspiration for women challenging conventionally defined gender roles.



Average rating: 3.87 · 33,955 ratings · 1,866 reviews · 128 distinct works · Similar authors
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 7,406 ratings — published 1977 — 66 editions
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Little Birds
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 4,109 ratings — published 1979 — 27 editions
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 2,931 ratings — published 1966 — 19 editions
A Spy in the House of Love
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 2,356 ratings — published 1953 — 27 editions
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 1,428 ratings — published 1967 — 15 editions
A Literate Passion: Letters...
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 1,049 ratings — published 1987 — 8 editions
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 926 ratings — published 1969 — 9 editions
House of Incest
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 895 ratings — published 1958 — 12 editions
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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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