“I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.”

— Anaïs Nin , book A Spy in the House of Love

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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977

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“I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.”

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