Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances.
The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.
DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.
Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read and admired as autobiographical expression. And thanks to the democratic exposures of the web, it's easier than ever to document private experiences and divulge the most intimate secrets.
There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.
There are so many ways in which the heart of man conceals itself from man!
Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.
