Anais Nin opens volume 7 of her diary with: "At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anais - Anais - Anais. You just say 'Anna' and then add 'ees,' with the accent on the 'ees.'"
If you live in a watertight compartment of your self-created world, you may complain of loneliness she says of her friend.
In the 1930's Anais was more interested in passion than in intellect, more interested in love than in psychology. Now in the 1960's she can look back on her life as a composite, which is revealing its purpose and meaning. Passion and love, intellect and psychology, they were all part of her life, all part of who she has become.
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