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About Anais Nin

Anais Nin was a 20th-century American born american author. 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. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Happiness — Thoughts on finding joy, contentment, and fulfilment

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“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
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To Love Only Incapacity

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
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See Things Them

“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 ...”
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“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
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Life Adversity Defeat

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
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Love You Protect

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
— Anais Nin
Coffee Sun Joy
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