I Admired In Others The Strength That

I Was A Town Child, It Is True, But That Did Not Prevent Me Enjoying Open-air Life, With Plants And Animals.

I Did Not Know What It Was To Be Happy For A Whole Day At A Time, Scarcely For An Hour.

The Person Upon Whom The Schoolboys' Attention Centred Was, Of Course, The Headmaster.

What Has Here Happened Is That The Instinct Of Cruelty, Which Has Turned Inwards, Has Become Self-torture, And All Man's Animal Instincts Have Been Reinterpreted As Guilt Towards God. Every Nay Man Utters To His Nature, To His Real Being, He Flings Out As A Yea, An Affirmation Of Reality Applied To God's Sanctity

Birth Was Something That Came Quite Unexpectedly, And Afterwards There Was One Child More In The House.