Simone De BeauvoirWhat an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
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What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. It is very odd that we put down all our thoughts and feelings on a piece of paper, but often leave out the most important parts of them on a piece of paper.
Source: The Woman Destroyed
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