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Hugh Walpole
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I am sure that it is this question of adjustment to conditions that brings happiness, but in my own case it is to this day—and will be until I die—a matter of surprise, constant and unfailing, that I have the fun I do, see and hear the lovely things I do, enjoy the friendships I do. It is as though I expect to wake up at any moment and find this all a dream, to wake up and discover that I am back in the dormitory at R——, with the sudden sleep-awakened terror of immediate pain, pain spiritual, pain mental, pain physical. So do not envy me my happiness. Somewhere, once, it was otherwise. ...
My desire that everyone else should be happy makes me often sentimental. But I do not think that I see this cruel and remorseless world falsely. With my personal belief that this world is a place for soul-training, I do not see how this life could be other than the extraordinary mixture of terror and splendour that it is. After all in actual experience it is, I suppose, a matter of choice. ‘You pay your money ...’
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