Anais Nin, poet
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Anais Nin

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About Anais Nin

1903 - 1977/Female/FrenchAn essayist and memoirist, Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell wrote journals which span more than 60 years, novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica.

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And then the day came,when the risk
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She took off her dress. She had long black hair, a pale face, slantedgreen eyes, greener than the sea. She was beautifully formed, with high
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Poetry & Stories

  1. Anaïs Nin on writing

    "Why one writes is a question I can never answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me – the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art....

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  2. Risk

    And then the day came,when the risk

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  3. Letters with Anais Nin

    She took off her dress. She had long black hair, a pale face, slantedgreen eyes, greener than the sea. She was beautifully formed, with high

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