"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction."

"I am dirty, Felice, I am filthy, and I have to confess it to you. I have written to you so many lies, and have hidden away so much from you."

"I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."

"I have not been able to write a single line for two months. My head is empty, my heart is empty, my soul is empty."

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in these bones."