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Anais Nin

1903 - 1977

Anaïs Nin was a French-Cuban-American diarist, essayist, and writer, born on February 21, 1903. She is best known for her diaries, which detailed her personal life and relationships, as well as her avant-garde fiction, including works such as "Delta of Venus" and "Little Birds," which explore themes of sexuality and femininity. Nin's literary contributions have had a lasting impact on feminist literature and modern fiction.

  1. I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

    Anais Nin
    #mermaid#fear#depth

  2. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

    Anais Nin
    #woman#empowerment#creation

  3. Dreams are necessary to life.

    Anais Nin
    #dreams#existence#necessity

  4. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

    Anais Nin
    #travel#exploration#existence

  5. When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

    Anais Nin
    #religion#growth#autonomy

  6. The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

    Anais Nin
    #knowledge#wonder#mystery

  7. Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

    Anais Nin
    #friendship#connection#identity