One of my favorite paragraphs is from this book: Dance to the Piper by Agnes de Mille: A-1 Women's Discount Bookstore.
Anna Pavlova! My life stops as I write that name. Across the daily preoccupation of lessons, lunch boxes, tooth brushings and quarrelings with Margaret flashed this bright, unworldly experience and burned in a single afternoon a path over which I could never retrace my steps. I had witnessed the power of beauty, and in some chamber of my heart I lost forever my irresponsibility. I was as clearly marked as though she had looked me in the face and called my name." (opening, Chapter 6) c. 1951, 1952 Agnes de Mille
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