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date: 24 May 2025

Anaïs Nin 1903–77
French-born American writer 

  1. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
    The Diary of Anaïs Nin vol. 3 (1971) June 1941
  2. Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
    diary, February 1947; The Diary of Anais Nin vol. 4 (1944–7)