"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

"I am a great deal interested suddenly in my book. I want to bring in the despicableness of people like Ott. I want to give the slipperiness of the soul."

"I have an immense desire to be alone; and yet I am afraid of solitude."

"It is fatal to be a man or a woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly."

"I am reading myself into a state of imbecility."