“Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!”

— Anaïs Nin

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

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