Quote by: Anais Nin

No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted to resuscitate such men by my own joyousness or luminosity. When I break glasses in a night club, as the Russians do, when my unconscious breaks out in wild rebellions, it is against life which has crippled these idealistic, romantic men. I respect these men, cold, pure, faithful, devoted, moral, delicate, sensitive, and unequal to life, more than I respect the tough-minded ones who return three blows to one received, who kill those who hurt them.


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Author Bio


  • NameAnais Nin
  • DescriptionWriter of novels, short stories, and erotica
  • AliasesAngela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
  • BornFebruary 21, 1903
  • DiedJanuary 14, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Autobiographer