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There were always in me two women at least one woman desperate and bewildered who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene as upon a stage conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses helplessness despair and present to the world only a smile an eagerness curiosity enthusiasm interest.
There were always in me two women at least one woman desperate and bewildered who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene as upon a stage conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses helplessness despair and present to the world only a smile an eagerness curiosity enthusiasm interest.
Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
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- Anais Nin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1940 AD · modern
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Anais Nin: recorded author lifetime 1903–1977. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220018 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is anais-nin; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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