"Nem tudom, de nekem a feleségem gyanús"
“I do not know, but my wife is suspicious to me"

Summary/Abstract: I do not know, but diary writing is suspicious to me. At least the kind of diary writing that is not admitted to be done for the public and that is not a preliminary study for later works but one that is hidden by its author and not shown to anybody. Why would one do something like this? Writing must have been invented to enable people to communicate something to each other overcoming the limits of space and time this way. Why should I communicate something to the person who is as close to me in time and space as possible - to myself? Perhaps to remind me later of what I said and thought years earlier? Come on, why would this be essential? We have at least as many reasons to feel ashamed of our former deeds and words as to be proud of them. If I very rarely come across an old letter of mine, I feel not proud but rather uneasy. Most writers make their diaries with the definite aim to make them public -- if not now then later on.

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