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About Anais Nin

  • Born: February 21, 1903
  • Died: January 14, 1977
  • Occupation: Author
    • It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you feel the poorer for it. but then you have not thought that this dream is planted in others, others begin to live it too, it is shared, it is the beginning of friendship and love. how is this world made which you enjoy, the friends around me that you love? they came because i first gave away my stories.
    Dream Writing Giving
    My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.
    Mind Trunks
    We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.
    Kitchen Mind Exchanging
    I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
    Friendship Cute Best Friend Enough
    To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
    Writing
    Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
    House And Love Turns
    At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.
    Confused World Firsts
    One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. fez is an image of my inner self. ... the layers of the city of fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. one needs a guide. ... there were in fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
    Self Cities Needs
    America hates the artist. it will not admit: the artist is my soul and i want to kill off my soul.
    Hate Artist America
    I prefer empty cages, sabina, until i find a unique bird i once saw in my dreams.
    Dream Unique Bird
    I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. she would crush me to ashes without hesitation. she is a personality created to the limit. i worship her courage to hurt, and i am willing to be sacrificed to it. she will add the sum of me to her. she will be june plus all that i contain.
    Crush Hurt June
    When i first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
    World Care Firsts
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