Anais Nin
Anais Nin
Anaïs Ninwas an essayist and memoirist born to 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 wrote 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1903
CityNanterre, France
CountryUnited States of America
At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.