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The Anaïs Nin Foundation promotes the appreciation of the Twentieth Century writer famous for her groundbreaking diary and poetic lyricism.
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When a statement necklace says it all...
Anaïs Nin signs a copy of the Diary, mid 1960s
📷 Marlene Wallace
05 Nov 2026
An Edwardian child: Anaïs Nin as an infant
02 Nov 2026
Today's sticker drop is in London, at @waterstonesgowerstreet WC2. Such a delight to see the beautiful @penguinukbooks editions shelved in there 😍😍😍
01 Nov 2026
For Halloween week:
"Woman’s role in creation should be parallel to her role in life. I don’t mean the good earth. I mean the bad earth too, the demon, the instincts, the storms of nature. Tragedies, conflicts, mysteries are personal. Man fabricated a detachment which became fatal. Woman must not fabricate. She must descend into the real womb and expose its secrets and its labyrinths. She must describe it as the city of Fez, with its Arabian Nights gentleness, tranquility
and mystery. She must describe the voracious moods, the desires, the worlds contained in each cell of it. For the womb has dreams. It is not as simple as the good earth. I believe at times that man created art out of fear of exploring woman. I believe woman stuttered about herself out of fear of what she had to say. She covered herself with taboos and veils. Man invented a woman to suit his needs. He disposed of her by identifying her with nature and then paraded his contemptuous domination of nature. But woman is not nature only.
She is the mermaid with her fish-tail dipped in the unconscious. Her creation will be to make articulate this obscure world which dominates man, which he denies being dominated by, but which asserts its domination in destructive proofs of its presence, madness."
August 6, 1937
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 2, 1934-39
01 Jan 1970
"Anxiety is dispersing, splitting the loves. Anxiety because Rupert is the adventure I want, and I fear the instability of it, the unknown."
April 15, 1947, "Trapeze" by Anaïs Nin
This is a young Rupert Pole's acting headshot, date unknown.
🔥🔥🔥
01 Jan 1970
"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."
from "D.H. Lawrence – An Unprofessional Study" (1932) by Anaïs Nin
Nin's work on D.H. Lawrence was her first publication, and was groundbreaking in many ways, not least because Lawrence was critically reviled at the time. From the 1964 introduction by Harry T. Moore:
"To get back to D. H. Lawrence: something should be said about the situation in 1932. Because of the present huge fame of Lawrence it is hard for those of us who can not remember how he was regarded in his lifetime, and just after his death, to realize how much he was unappreciated and how often he
was sneered at. He had a small and faithful public, a few thousand readers who provided him royalties enough to live on just above the line of poverty. But with few exceptions, the reviewers of his works were either condescending or savage, and the wide public knew of Lawrence only as a man whose books were sometimes suppressed. His death in 1930 brought forth some bitter obituaries, still shocking as one looks over them today."
109 likes · 0 comments · 26 Sep 2026
"Tomorrow I am going to New York to help Maman, and do
you believe that I am already thinking happily about the dress
that Maman is going to buy me for my birthday? For just think,
on February 21 I will be seventeen! It’s a year since someone
turned me into a coquette by a mad kiss!"
January 4, 1920
Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin 1914-1920
Alas, the original diary containing the entry about February 21, 1919, Anaïs's 16th birthday kiss, was lost, so we have to take her word for it.
#demure
105 likes · 1 comments · 23 Sep 2026
"My work must be the closest to the life flow. I must install myself inside of the seed, growth, mysteries. I must prove the possibility of instantaneous, immediate, spontaneous art. My art must be like a miracle. Before it goes through the conduits of the brain and becomes an abstraction, a fiction, a lie. It must be for woman, more like a personified ancient ritual, where every spiritual thought was made visible, enacted, represented.
A sense of the infinite in the present, as the child has."
From The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 2, 1934-1939
6 August, 1937
#art #writing #femalecreation
43 likes · 2 comments · 19 Sep 2026
Who knows this door?
Anaïs Nin's papers are held in archives internationally and most of them are accessible to members of the public, but you may have to apply in advance and complete all the necessary paperwork.
This is the Special Collections Room at #UCLA, which holds many boxes of Nin memorabilia.
Find out more via our website
#archives
61 likes · 4 comments · 17 Sep 2026
Cover of Anaïs Nin's "Winter of Artifice" (first published by Swallow in 1945), featuring Ian Hugo's engravings
#novelettes #vintagepaperback
68 likes · 2 comments · 14 Sep 2026
"I, myself, concentrated so much on my sixth sense that I developed this vision which sees beyond facts, the better to find sensations and divinations. It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided
learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order t o reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress."
from the Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 4, 1944-1977
April 1945
#esoterica #sixthsense
172 likes · 1 comments · 12 Sep 2026
#Backtoschool blues?
Anaïs meets with students at her home in Silver Lake
87 likes · 3 comments · 09 Sep 2026
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