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“Funny the things one noticed even when one was sick and anxious because one was about to murder someone…”

“It’ll be hard on me, too, but we must remember that to force her to keep living just because we can stand to lose her is both cruel and selfish”

“Lifting your skirts and bending over for a man again and again was a choice not a natural law.”

“What distinguishes a lady from a maid is how much she eats. A true lady must always leave the dinner table a little hungry. If her stomach isn’t grumbling an hour after, she has eaten too much.”

“As for everything else, we’ll, there was always the excuses of madness. Once one had been deemed mad, anything and everything could be interpreted as a symptom, especially if one was a woman. A desire for sex, sullenness, cursing…”

“Death is a kind of mutilation”

“Oh but the mind can be such a dark place to be caught up in. If only I could unburden myself to someone other than these pages!”

Onanism is a sign of madness

“Trying to find iogic in the ramblings of a lunatic, of someone whose mind is disordered, is in itself a kind of madness”

“It’s not natural. This fascination with something so broken and ugly. Aren’t women supposed to have an inclination toward the beautiful and the healthy, like plump babies and silky dogs and men with good teeth?”