3 Quotes by Cate Haste

What will become of us?...I only play Bach at the moment because he is the only one who frees me from the prison of my thoughts.' 'God in heaven. One CAN'T live without hope...'[citing Alma's diary entries for August 31 and September 1, 1938]

I was born to be lonely / And loneliness is my destiny, / For I feed off my own thoughts.[Alma Schindler, Diary entry for May 20, 1899]

Alma decided she had to get out of the 'disastrous house' on the Hohe Warte.... Werfel had never found the grandeur of it comfortable and had often escaped elsewhere to write. They decided to rent it out. After packing up 10,000 books and 5,000 sheets of music, their paintings and furniture--'in reality junk for eternity, and baggage during everyday life'--she threw a party...[citing Alma's diary entry for June 15, 1937]