animals reconcile me to the rest of the world. i'm solitary as i'm scared of people's cruelty, of what they think, of vulgarity, things like that. so i'm very alone, i cut myself off.

i lose out on a lot too. but i'm so scared of being hurt by it all that i'm very solitary. animals really do act as a buffer between people. i'm reconciled to the world through their sweetness.

what's terrible is i refuse to commit to anything. (imagine someone who won't follow any direction-he ends up a tramp.) i could too, easily. i don't know..it haunts me.     lydia, theater costume maker. in the film le joli mai, paris, 1962.