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I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

Anais Nin

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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
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
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