1. "Because what she later did, mainly in the last years, she tried to lie, and to perfume, and make up her life for the posterity."
2. "She was a monster in the sense that everything with her is bigger, bigger than life." 3. "And she made herself bigger than life." 4. "And when she writes about herself in her autobiography you feel that she is possessed by that need to prove that every moment of her life was not ordinary, it was extraordinary."