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“No one can be emperor all by himself.”

And so I went to see Therese. She also realized that I have to flee, because flight is an erotic word for her. She gave me her savings. Dear God, I swear to you, I will return it to her with diamonds and all the good fortune in the world.

“I got more flowers than all the other actresses combined. That’s because I had spread the word that I would be playing and except for Hubert all the men I had ever had a relationship with were at the theater. I had no idea there were so many! Except for them, the theater was empty. There was hardly anyone there.”

“I felt like writing a poem, but that might have had to rhyme and I was too tired for that”

Doris when the moonlight is shining on her head. I get it

Katharina von Ankum, Leo A. Lansing

“The constant friction between her materialistic desires and her romantic ambitions derails efforts to become upward mobile.”

I like that Doris feels contempt for diarists and wants to “write like a movie.” Me too!!!!