为什么我写下来？当然要记住，但是我想记住什么？实际发生了多少？有什么吗？为什么我完全保留笔记本？在所有这些分数上欺骗自己很容易。写下东西的冲动是一种奇特的强迫性，对于那些不共享它的人来说是遥不可及的，仅是偶然地，仅以任何强迫试图证明自身合理的方式而有用的。
(Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened? Did any of it? Why do I keep a notebook at all? It is easy to deceive oneself on all those scores. The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.)
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