I have two souls: I know it.

And am I a liar? When he looks at me so happily, what a profound feeling of ecstasy. Is that a lie, too? No, no. I must cast out my other soul. The one which has so far ruled must be banished. I must strive to become a real person, let everything happen to me of its own accord.

 

—Alma Maria Schindler’s diary, January 16, 1902, translated by Antony Beaumont