“Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance — that is all!”

— Anaïs Nin

Oct. 21, 1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

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

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