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

— Anaïs Nin · Courage quote

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anaïs Nin quote card
Writer · 1903 – 1977

Anaïs Nin was a French-born writer celebrated for her diaries, kept for more than sixty years and published from 1966 onward. Her lyrical exploration of the inner life and her friendships with writers such as Henry Miller made her a distinctive voice of 20th-century letters.

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