"Adolescence is like cactus."
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."
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Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1, 1931-1934.
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