Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.

Is it possible to say what one really feels?

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.