“I know very well that I have no reason to feel aggrieved - I am fully aware of how lucky I am, but knowing it and still being down makes me hate myself all the more.”
“We don’t know very well those we love But I understand them fairly well Being all these people myself I who am however but a baboon.”
“I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.”
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am".”
“I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.”