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The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.

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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Novelist
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
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Child
Complaints
Men
Dies
Answered
Like
Lying
Fears
Peace
Cease
Sense
Leaves
Stills
Understood
Still
Leave
Lamenting
Children
Wonder
Consoled

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