This entry of the Diary contains some thought-provoking quotes:
Anais is thinking about themes for her next book: "There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."
Along the same lines, she comes up with a portrait of a person: "When one does not wish to face the darkness in one's self, one relates to the dark person who will represent this, and then one engages in a duel with that person, in place of a duel with one's own shadow self."
Anais loves listening to the stories of others and creating her own: "Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. It is the balm of the primitive, the way to exorcise a terrifying life."
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