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Anais Nin Quotes
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Famous Anais Nin Quotations
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Anaes Nin IPA: [ana'ies nin] (born Angela Anaes Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell) (February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977) was a Cuban-French author who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death. Nin is also famous for her erotica
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- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Anais Nin »
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin »
- Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. Anais Nin »
- 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. Anais Nin »
- 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. Anais Nin »
- 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. Anais Nin »
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin »
- 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. Anais Nin »
- The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. Anais Nin »
- 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. Anais Nin »
- We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. Anais Nin »
- When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anais Nin »
- When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. Anais Nin »
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