"Adolescence is like cactus."
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
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Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
Anais Nin was a French-Cuban-American diarist and writer known for her exploration of love, identity, and the human psyche in works like 'Delta of Venus'.
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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am."
"Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist."
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."