Anaïs Nin | Authentic diarist

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Anaïs Nin | Authentic diarist

Diarist, essayist, novelist, short story writer

An earth-toned artwork paired with a nugget of nous: "There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned." - Anaïs Nin
An original artwork The deeper recesses of the heart paired with a nugget of wisdom from Anaïs Nin: “There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.”

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“Anaïs Nin was a 20th century diarist whose work “focused on her interior life and became the chronicle of her search for fulfillment in what was often for women a painfully restrictive culture.” (The Anaïs Nin Foundation)

Purchase In Favor of the Sensitive Man, And Other Essays on Amazon in which Nin offers her perspectives on the arts.

“Nin believed that consciousness is a stream of images and words that flow from us as long as we live, and something to be shared.” (The Anaïs Nin Foundation)

Purchase The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 on Amazon

Illuminations on living life artistically from the Artistic Mind of Anaïs Nin: “There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
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