Anais Nin

Anais Nin (1903-1977), full name Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell was a French-born US diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. She was the daughter of the composer Joaquín Nin and the classically trained singer Rosa Culmell.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Adolescence is like cactus.

- A Spy in the House of Love

• The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

- The New Woman

• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.

- Diary

• People living deeply have no fear of death.

- Ibid.

• Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
• The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

Jorge Carrera Andrade