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The journal can also be a necessary companion, a companion that doesn’t put you down, and always speaks just to you. It is hanging on to the private core of your being when the rest of your life is peopled with people who don’t understand or are infinitely more important than you.

James Lees-Milne wrote in his diary in 1946,

“Why do I resume this diary which three months ago I brought to an end? There is no explanation. I merely missed it like an old friend…I treated, and shall continue treating, my diary like an intimate friend who mustn’t know everything. If a man has no constant lover who shares his soul as well as his body he must have a diary–a poor substitute, but better than nothing .”