“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
Anaïs Nin, in full Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, was born in France to Cuban parents on 21 February 1903.
She lived a rather controversial life, writing short stories and essays known for their eroticism.
She rose to fame with her personal journals, which she began writing at the age of eleven and continued until her death in 1977
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
“Il segreto della gioia è la padronanza del dolore.”
Anaïs Nin, per esteso Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, nacque in Francia da genitori cubani il 21 febbraio 1903.
Visse in modo piuttosto controversi, scrivendo racconti e saggi noti per il loro erotismo.
Divenne famosa fama con i suoi diari personali che iniziò a scrivere quando aveva solo undici anni e continuò fino alla morte nel 1977
“La vita è un processo di divenire, una combinazione di stati che dobbiamo attraversare. Dove le persone falliscono è che vogliono scegliersi uno stato e restarci. Questa è una specie di morte”.
“La vita è veramente conosciuta solo da coloro che soffrono, perdono, sopportano le avversità e inciampano di sconfitta in sconfitta”.
“Le persone che vivono profondamente non hanno paura della morte”.
“Viaggiamo, alcuni di noi per sempre, per cercare altri stati, altre vite, altre anime”.
Wise words, as always Luisa. We all need to get out of our comfort zone from time to time. Failure is the best teacher. Allan
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That involves our growth, Allan, because life, as we say here in Italy, “is not all roses and flowers”
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Or in other words … what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger …
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It couldn’t be expressed better
Thanks a lot
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It’s not the journey it’s the struggles we overcome? Dark and complex lady.
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Yes
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I completely agree with you on the complexity of her personality 🙏
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He leído sus diarios y sus relatos cortos. Era una mujer fascinante y una brillante escritora cubana-francesa. Un post fabuloso Luisa. Feliz día.
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Muchas gracias, Francisco
Buenos días
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De nada Luisa, buen día.
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🙏😘🙏😘🙏
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Me entiende. Gracias.
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A great author and her inspiring story to read 🌷🙏👍🏻thank you so much and grace wishes 🙏🌷♥️🌷
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Grateful to read your words. Your support and encouragement are really appreciated🙏💕🙏💕🙏
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So welcome dear and thanks a lot for sharing 🌷🙏❤️🌝🙏
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My pleasure, Thattamma 😊✨
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I love her ❤️
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I feel that way too. 🙏🌷🙏
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🤗🌸
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Meravigliose e profonde queste sue citazioni ❤🥀 Buon pomeriggio carissima Luisa, checsai sempre come culturalmente alimentarci 😘❤🥀
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Buon pomeriggio a te, dolcissima Giusy e grazie. Sempre 😘😘😘
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Thanks for sharing, Luisa!
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She had such wonderful quotes! Look at this: “People living deeply have no fear of death.” Marvelous!
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That’s exactly how I feel. I think it is amazing , as well
Thank you for your kind words
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Indeed! Your most welcome, my friend. 🙏
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🙏❣️🙏
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Straordinaria, grazie per averla ricordata 🌹Buon pomeriggio, Luisa carissima 🌹❤
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Non potevo non ricordarla: oggi è l’anniversario della sua nascita 🎀🎀🎀
Buon pomeriggio, Dani
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Di la non è i suoi 5 volumi dei diari che mi ispirarono la necessità della casa a colei.
La sua camera color albicocca, per la tenerezza mi rimase impressa.
La Nin.
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La camera color albicocca… che tenerezza!
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Thank you, Luisa, for introducing this interesting journal writer, and her thought-provoking quotes.
Joanna
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I am very pleased that you enjoyed this post!
As ever, thank you very much for your continued support and encouragement!! 🙂
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Un’autrice affascinante e non si può dire che le sue opere non abbiano lasciato il segno, come le sue citazioni, d’altronde. Buona serata, cara Luisa!👍🌹
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Sono completamente d’accordo con il tuo pensiero, Grazia
Buona serata ❣️
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[…] Anaïs Nin on Life […]
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Thank you very much for sharing this on your blog 🙏🎀🙏
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“Le persone che vivono profondamente non hanno paura della morte”./“Viaggiamo, alcuni di noi per sempre, per cercare altri stati, altre vite, altre anime”, mi trovo molto in queste due definizioni.
Di Anais Nin ho letto i Diari e Il delta di venere.
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Anch’io, ma sono una scelta dei diari
Buona serata ❣️💙❣️
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Thinking deeply about life isn’t a bad thing, but thinking too deeply is.💙
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I couldn’t agree more, dear Malc 🙏💙🙏
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Io ho divorato “il delta di venere”, forse una delle sue opere più famose. Aveva un modo di approcciarsi all’erotismo mai banale o scurrile.
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Anche a me è piaciuto molto, anzi, penso che lo rileggerò 😘
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😉😍
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La prima citazione è verità 💚
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Grazie, Didì
Buona serata! 😘😘😘
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I had not heard of her, and now she’s on my TBR list. Feeling fate’s fingers today. I recently names a character Anais – a strong woman who gets what she wants. Now, I must know more about this Anais.
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What a great coincidence … or fate?
She is a very interesting woman: you will like her writings ❣️❣️❣️
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Fantastica!!!!
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Sììììììììììì 🙏🌷🙏
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Eccome
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Padronanza is mastering? How interesting. I always love how all our cousin languages turn words around. Almost poetic.
Nin was a very strong personality. I wonder whether the mould is broken? We do need more of those.
Ciao, ciao…
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Dear Brian, do you really think they broke the mould after making her?
I really hope it’s not like that
Ciao 🙋♀️❤️🙋♀️
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No, I don’t think so. Just before and maybe during rinascimento, many people probably thought the same.
What is happening right now is that there is a revolution under way, and we cannot see what will happen. In 1790, the French could not imagine where the revolution would go, or that Terror was coming. in 1795, nobody could imagine Napoleon and the Empire, much less Waterloo.
Because we are observers inside the model, it is very difficult for us to see.
Right now, I think we might go through (very?) hard times, and then (when?) a new, better world will emerge. (Just hurry guys, I haven’t got so much time!) 😉
🙏🏻💕
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I couldn’t have said it any better: we are observers inside the model, so it is very difficult for us to see well.
… and I agree also on what you say about our really hard times, and the hope for a better world , But when???
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When is the big question. LOL. I ain’t getting younger, I can’t wait another 20-50 years for the human race to get its sh.t together again… (As Americans say: pardon my French!) 😉
Plus the fact that our current leaders are so limited intellectually… I don’t really see a Churchill or a de Gaulle around… Tsss.
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It is truly a tragic situation.
I was lucky enough to never see a war in Italy while my parents had experienced one, and for this I am grateful.
But what will happen now? What will happen to my sons?
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Yeah. What will happen to our children and grandchildren? I don’t know.
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I don’t know either, Brian, and I’m really worried.
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Me too. People just don’t remember what war is. They think it will go away, or that it’s easy… Ma no é niente facile…
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😢💙😢💙😢💙😢
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Anaïs Nin una figura controvversa nel panorama letteraria. Il delta di Venere – delt of Venus – ruppe alla sua uscita gli schemi perbenisti degli anni cinquanta e aprì la strada al genere erotico al femminile, sdoganando molte situazioni che per pudore non si aveva il coraggio di dire.
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Ti ringrazio di cuore per questa precisazione
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ciao
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🙏💙🙏
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Muchas gracias, Juan
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Link, Grazie, saludos para ti Luisa
Juan
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Muchas gracias, Juan 🙏💙🙏
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The current situation of world we are living in definitely need this to overcome all the struggles.
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Thank you very much for your thoughtful reflection.🙏🙏🙏
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Ma sai che non sapevo che i suoi genitori fossero cubani?
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Sì. I genitori si erano incontrati a L’Avana, e la madre, maggiore del padre di otto anni, era stata travolta dalla bellezza e dal talento di quell’affascinante pianista ventiduenne
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I read her diaries when in college, in my formative years when you think about who you are and what you believe. Always an inspiration, she was a person who lived and felt life deeply.
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Thank you so much, Ruth, for your kind visit, and adding your worthy words. It really means a lot to me 🙏💐🙏
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I only started creating a blog just yesterday. It’s still a blank page, though I have many things in my head and word documents to fill it 🙂 I did a random search for blogs about ‘life’ and yours was top of the page. Ironically my blog’s quote comes from Anais Nin…”We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”Anaïs Ni.
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I wish you a happy job with blogging🌷🌷🌷
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