The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.
I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire for communication too; without the answering voice you get so numb; you lose faith in your powers to communicate.
Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.
... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.