Nin, Anais

1903 – She was born on the 21st day of February this year in Neuilly, France.

1923 - She married Hugh Parker Guiler this year.

1940 – She faced with a desperate need for money, wrote the stories in Delta of Venus for a dollar a page.

1946 - She appeared in the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time.

1952 - She appeared a film directed by Guiler under the name "Ian Hugo", Bells of Atlantis.

1954 - She appeared in the Kenneth Anger film, “Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome as Astarte.”

1973 - She received an honorary doctorate from the Philadelphia College of Art.

1974 - She was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

1977 - She died in Los Angeles, California on January 14 this year and Her body was cremated, and her ashes were scattered over Santa Monica Bay.

• "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
• "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
• "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
• "If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."
• "And the day came when the risk it took to remain closed in a bud became more painful than the risk it took to blossom."