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With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.

Anais Nin

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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
Author
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
Like
Pleasure
Pool
Annihilate
Known
Flames
Pools
Eye
Madness
Lick
Give
Wave
Devouring
Giving
Response
Erotic
Something
Absolutely
Trembling
Never
Alone
Flame
Men
Eyes
Waves

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