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Anais Nin

Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, known professionally as Anaïs Nin, was a French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of composer Joaquín Nin and Rosa Culmell, a classically trained singer.

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"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."

— Anais Nin

"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."

— Anais Nin

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

— Anais Nin

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."

— Anais Nin

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

— Anais Nin

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life."

— Anais Nin

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."

— Anais Nin

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."

— Anais Nin

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