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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence.
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