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"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me."
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Source: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927 by Anaïs Nin, Volume 3, September 2, 2014.
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