Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.
The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.
The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.
It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.