make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.

“More people perish than want to. Death comes running with astonishing speed, st…”

“I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.”

“Perhaps there were a few repetitions here and there. But I would like to confes…”

“What a terrible dream I had a few days ago. [...] To the knives and forks clung…”