It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

February 13, 1936
I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps...

Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want to write about men, should I stop talking about the countryside? If the sky or light attract me, shall I forget the eyes or voices of those I love? Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself.