I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

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It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

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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.

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I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

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One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

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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.

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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

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When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

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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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When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

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