“When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.”

—  Anaïs Nin

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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

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