Anais Nin

Anais Nin
Anaïs Ninwas an essayist and memoirist born to Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba but lived most of her life in the United States where she became an established author. She wrote journals, novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1903
CityNanterre, France
CountryUnited States of America
Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality...I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.