One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Only the moment counts. It determines life.
There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.
I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.
Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.