Anais Nin

"Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become 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 I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence."

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Source: Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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Anais Nin

Anais Nin

Writer, Diarist

Anais Nin was a French-Cuban-American diarist and writer known for her exploration of love, identity, and the human psyche in works like 'Delta of Venus'.

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