My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

“Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange…”

“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”

“O wandering graves! O restless sleep!O silence of the sunless day!O still ravin…”

“He loves first editions, especially of women: little girls are his passion.”