44 quotes found
“Besides, who is to say that the feelings he writes in his diary are his true feelings? Who is to say that at each moment while the pen moves he is truly himself? At one moment he might truly be him...”
“I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape.”
“You know, when life presents you only good things and you idealize them to your way.And abruptly it comes up an avalanche of catastrophes and destroys all your beautiful dreams, as a war that destr...”
“The platonic love I feel for my cousin, made me write this diary ...Leione”
“I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.”
“It's my diary", she'd explained. "Every mark I've had drawn on my skin connects me to where and who I've been- so I never forget who I am and how I got here."There was humour in the smile she offer...”
“I'm sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment.”
“If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?”
“Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?”
“How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?”
“If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every piece of paper that gets balled up and tossed away. So in that case here it is- my name's Sal.”
“The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead...”
“That's not FOR REAL.”
“I had always been a solitary person. Therefore I had a habit of opening my heart to a piece of paper. I thought that was quite secure. I knew that those words would never go out there, except of co...”
“Each year, take a step aside, look back, and recognize how the people you have met, what you have read, and what you've heard, have changed you slightly for the better or maybe slightly worse. Simi...”
“From the Diary of the Duchess of RoxburgheI vow, I cannot seem to walk past a window without seeing my great-nephew carrying Miss Balfour somewhere. All great romantic poems have such scenes where ...”
“Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind's determination to rule his neighbour, to prove how mighty he and his people are, y...”
“Kira is our god,That's who does in this world justice, It's not KARMA!”
“The following year the house was substantially remodeled, and the conservatory removed. As the walls of the now crumbling wall were being torn down, one of the workmen chanced upon a small leatherb...”
“It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all - the pencil of war, which spells only misery and death.”
