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What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

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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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
Happiness
Silk
Fall
Gather
Keep
Falls
May
Presses
Never
Press
Kneel
Like
Rain
Lace
Lose
Conceal
Loses
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