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Anaïs Nin

French author; b. 1903; d. 1977  ·  3 aphorisms  ·  3 comments

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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (767 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Smilee J.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

[aphorist] Anaïs Nin, in [category] Health and Disease and [category] Love and Hate

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (380 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

[aphorist] Anaïs Nin, in [category] Happiness and Misery and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (417 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] Anaïs Nin, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

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