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Anaïs Nin


Born
in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
February 21, 1903

Died
January 14, 1977

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Stories

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Djuna Barnes, D.H. Lawrence, Rimbaud, Henry Miller, Jean Cocteau, Mar ...more


Writer and diarist, born in Paris to a Catalan father and a Danish mother, Anaïs Nin spent many of her early years with Cuban relatives. Later a naturalized American citizen, she lived and worked in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Author of avant-garde novels in the French surrealistic style and collections of erotica, she is best known for her life and times in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volumes I-VII (1966-1980).

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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin
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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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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
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