Idealism
is both
a blessing and
a curse;
the world
is beautiful
as long as you
don’t remove
the rose-tinted
glasses.
Idealism
is both
a blessing and
a curse;
the world
is beautiful
as long as you
don’t remove
the rose-tinted
glasses.
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 Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via merkmal)
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