I write about little things because the big ones are like abysses. — Anais Nin · Skopia

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I write about little things because the big ones are like abysses.

1934

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The little things The ordinary and mundane Big vs. small

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Nin, Anaïs. "November, 1934." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 1, 1931-1934, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1966.

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