"My basic theme is that of relationship. To explore all the variations, the subtleties of relationships. As it is in moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most deeply, I choose to write more often about such moments. I choose the heightened moments because they bring to bear all the forces of intuition," Anais reveals in this entry of her Diary. "I choose the extraordinary moments of heightened revelations, the heightened ones because they are the moments of heightened revelations, of illuminations, of the greatest riches. They are the moments when the forces of the unconscious rise to the surface and take over. By this choice of the strongest moods, exaltations, states of being, I accentuate the reality of feeling and senses. I use the language of emotion and the senses, which is different from that of the intellect.
"My only structure is based on three forms of art - painting, dancing, music - because they correspond to the senses I find atrophied in literature today; and these forms are those most directly connected with life: the eyes, body, emotions," she continues.
"I write emotional algebra. All my life I have promised myself to begin at the beginning and tell the whole story very simply, step by step," she explains.
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