It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

People have never lost what they think they have.

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

We are always children to our mothers.

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.