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Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
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Anxiety
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Stranglehold
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Drowning

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