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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
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- Anaïs Nin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1903 to 1977; Wikidata Q220018, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220018 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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