"Ordinary life does not interest me. I
seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for
the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments
exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite
dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of
illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I
mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing
this I feel I am not living." Anaïs
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