Literature · Reflection
ANAIS NIN ~ ON HAPPINESS
12 January 2012
“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then i will never know happiness. for I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.”
Anais Nin
Photo Irving Penn, Anais Nin (1971)
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