“This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men’s dreams.”

—  Anaïs Nin

Children of the Albatross (1947)

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

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