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ImportError when running Manim example

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Description

### Describe the error
I'm a beginner in python and manim. I finished installing manim, then I met a problem running the circle example here [Quickstart](https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/tutorials/quickstart.html) It repeats error and no results, how can I solve it?

Thanks in advance!

### Code and Error
**Code**:
```
(base) zdf:~ zdf$ cd ./desktop/project
(base) zdf:project zdf$ manim -pql scene.py CreateCircle
```

**Error**:
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/zdf/opt/anaconda3/bin/manim", line 5, in
from manim.__main__ import main
File "/Users/zdf/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/manim/__init__.py", line 26, in
from .animation.composition import *
File "/Users/zdf/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/manim/animation/composition.py", line 16, in
from ..scene.scene import Scene
File "/Users/zdf/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/manim/scene/scene.py", line 38, in
from ..camera.camera import Camera
File "/Users/zdf/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/manim/camera/camera.py", line 16, in
import cairo
File "/Users/zdf/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cairo/__init__.py", line 1, in
from ._cairo import * # noqa: F401,F403
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/zdf/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cairo/_cairo.cpython-39-darwin.so, 0x0002): symbol not found in flat namespace (_cairo_append_path)
```

### Environment
**OS System**: MacOS
**manim version**: 0.17.3
**python version**: 3.10.4

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