"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself."
"I intend to do everything...to have one way of evaluating experience--does it cause me pleasure or pain, and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful--I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere I shall involve myself wholly...everything...
'In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself.'