1. Curious things, habits. People themselves
never knew they had them.
2. If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles,
one would hardly see anybody.
3. I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
4. I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with
things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a
fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
5. I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
6. One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
