Jim Morrison vs. Anaïs Nin
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Jim Morrison
1943 – 1971
Jim Morrison was an American singer, songwriter and poet, best known as the charismatic lead vocalist of the rock band The Doors and an icon of 1960s counterculture.
"That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretendin…"
Anaïs Nin
1924 – 1940
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of the composer Joaquín Nin and the classically trained singer Rosa Culmell. Nin spent her early years in Spain and Cuba, about sixteen years in Paris (1924–1940), and the remaining half of her life in the United States, where she became an established author.
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
Connections
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