In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.