Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.Anais Nin
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
Writer · 1903 – 1977
Anaïs Nin, French-born American diarist and novelist. She is celebrated for her multi-volume Diary, begun when she was eleven, and for works such as Delta of Venus.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.Anais Nin
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