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There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection.

Anais Nin

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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
Author
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
Silence
Introspection
Joy
Ceased
Head
Joys
Beauty
Multiple
Pleasure
Abandon
Cancer
Relationships
Gnawing
Completely
Silences

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