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Diaries Quotes

I want to live my life, not record it.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”, HarperCollins Publishers

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.34, Prestwick House Inc

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

"Artist Louise Bourgeois reveals her thoughts on drawing". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

"Iron Maiden". Interview With Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. July 27, 2009.

Don't read my diary when I'm gone.

"Walk like a junkie". www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2005.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.45, 谷月社