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Anaïs Nin

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Anaïs Nin was an essayist and memoirist born to Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba, but lived most of her life in the United States, where she became an established author.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

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How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

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