I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.