“To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.”

“For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”

“To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.”

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

“Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no laughing matter. It is no crying one either”

“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.”

“Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience (she accomplished here something dexterous with her needles) but as a wedge of darkness.”