Anaïs Nin

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1903 – 1977

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Who was Anaïs Nin?

Anaïs Nin was an American author born to Spanish-Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba but lived most of her life in the United States where she became an established author. She published journals, novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.

Famous Quotes:

  • We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
  • Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
  • Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
  • A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked
  • It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
  • Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
  • I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
  • Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
  • Dreams are necessary to life.
  • The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

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Born
Feb 21, 1903
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Also known as
  • Anais Nin
  • Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
  • Anaïs Nin
Siblings
Spouses
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • France
Profession
Died
Jan 14, 1977
Los Angeles

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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