“My whole feeling for life is born of an intense love of fr…

“my feeling for life has always been accompanied by non-acceptance of the world as it was given to me, by inability to be merged in the world—a deep-rooted disinclination to the habitual state and course of things...

“and an almost morbid weariness of the commonplace. Some have called this, in my opinion quite inaccurately, ‘individualism’. My wish to withdraw into myself does not conflict with a desire and an ability to enter a world of thought which is not my own...

"or, indeed, to feel profoundly engaged in the problems and struggles of society. Man is a complex and perplexing being. I am aware of my self as a point of intersection of two worlds; while ‘this’ world, the world of my actual living...

"is known to me as unauthentic, untrue, devoid alike of primacy and ultimacy, there is ‘another world’, more authentic and more true, to which my deepest self belongs…

“I think that all this has something to do with the predominance of imagination and vision over the brute matter-of-factness of life, though it has nothing to do with the addiction to illusions and wishful thinking.”