I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.You could claim that it's due to my military experience. But it came before that. I love their freedom of behavior. They're not constrained by penal attitudes, puritanical attitudes about behavior, both socially and morally. They have a freedom that I admire. An unquestioned freedom.

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.