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Anais Nin Quote

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

— Anais Nin

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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.

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

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