I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.