"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."

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"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."

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"If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul."

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"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."

Beginning

"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

Genius

"I've never made plans for more than a day ahead."

Opportunity

"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."

Truth

"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out."

Genius

"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."

Life

"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."

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"Daily dance is my delight."

"To feel pure joy, sell your pride and be loving and kind."

"If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul."

"Spread your smiles like the sunshine to cheer the world with love and joy."

"You can't afford to leave your happiness to others. Create what you wish to experience."

"To make it a perfect season, love everyone without reason."

"The sound of music, makes me dance."

"You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people's happiness suffocate."

"I wish for you a goodnight of sleep, sweet dreams, and a smiling morning."

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"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."

"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

"I've never made plans for more than a day ahead."

"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."

"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out."

"I love devils."

"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."

"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."

"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."

"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."