I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should probably forget all about them.' 'Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.

“It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need:…”

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old…”

“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.”

“Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. …”