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“I like reading and all that, but I crave to get back to the life of my infancy and its freedom.”

“Surely his plan should be to move inward through good and ill—to avoid morbid sorrow even though he did see the ugliness in the world? Bene agere et lætari—to do good cheerfully—which he had heard to be the philosophy of one Spinoza, might be his own even now.”

“He was just living for the first time: not wasting life.”