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“It is useless for me to record only the satisfying parts of my existence—(There are too few of them anyway!) Let me note all the sickening waste of today, that I shall not be easy with myself and compromise my tomorrows.”

“How can I help me, make me cruel?”

“How easy it would be to convince myself of the plausibility of my parents’ life! If I saw only them and their friends for a year, would resign myself—surrender? Does my “intelligence” need frequent rejuvenation at the springs of other’s dissatisfaction and die without it?”