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Happiness“Being at peace inside yourself, liking yourself and the whole world all at once,” she said simply. “Going about your work with your whole heart and loving what you do.”

“I find the real world incredibly brutal, Mr. van der Vere,” she said quietly. “People slaughtering other people, abusing little children, finding new ways to kill, making heroes of villains, using sensationalism as a substitute for good drama in motion pictures…. Am I boring you? I don’t find cruelty in the least pleasurable. If that makes me unrealistic, then I suppose that I am one.”