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Anais Nin

Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was an American author born to Spanish-Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised.

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

Tags: Love, Protect, Does

Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Tags: Writing, Through, Write

Anais Nin

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Tags: Music, God, Greatest

Anais Nin

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Tags: Time, Father, Long

Anais Nin

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

Tags: Life, Expands, Proportion

Anais Nin

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.

Tags: Men, Strength, Believe

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.

Tags: Love, History, Hope

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.

Tags: Life, Must, Look

Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Tags: Come, Light, Dawn

Anais Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Tags: Beautiful, Woman, Poetical

Anais Nin

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