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Anais Nin5 quotes
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anais Nin · 1941The very touch of the letter was as if you had taken me all into your arms. — Anais Nin · 1932Electric flesh-arrows...traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm. — Anais Nin · 1937Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. — Anais Nin · 1941I write about little things because the big ones are like abysses. — Anais Nin · 1934