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Anaïs Nin.

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

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) was a French-born American writer, best known for the many volumes of her published diaries.

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Based in
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
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1903 – 1977
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“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.”

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