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This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.

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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Diarist
Novelist
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
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Air
Snowflake
Took
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Sun
Handsomeness
Later
Swallows

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