“In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.”

— Anaïs Nin

May 11, 1935, published in Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937 (1995)
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writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977

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