uncompromising materialism which in my
opinion represented the law of human progress.
When people claimed that they protested against damaging natural beauty out of unselfish motives, I suspected them and
viewed them with contempt. I not only disbelieved people when
they said things out of unselfish motives,
I also held them in contempt.
5. Just imagine how I have changed now. Here I stand,
sentimental and sensitive, like an old unmarried woman
painting a water-color picture of the sunset.
6. I want to enjoy beauty to my heart '
s content before I die.
7. At this moment I am not the
middle-aged journalist that people believe me to be, spending a holiday on an ocean-going liner. I
have now become a liberated person, bathed in magic
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waters, and I feel I am like Endymion, a young and strong youth
who has a god for his father and gifted with the power to see the world inspired by the gods at Olympus.
8. I feel that I am weightless and totally absorbed by the night and feel at peace with the night. 9. I imagine devoted religions people must feel as clean and
pure as I do now when they leave the
solemn confessional after gaining pardon for their sins. 10. In the same way I let myself freely imagine what the innermost part of Laura
?s character presents. She looks so severe outwardly, but inwardly she is full of
tenderness---tenderness like delicate flowers waiting for the daring to discover them.
11. We human beings ought to learn from the wise bird, knowing
how far we can allow ourselves to go; knowing how much
freedom of conduct we can allow ourselves to have.
12. Here I ' m born anew, completely different from the past,
changed excessively or to an unusual
extent.
13. The Pacific Ocean alone is much larger than all the continents combined.
14. A storm that lasted two days has made me extremely
excited and happy, but above all， I love these idle days in
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which I throw off all the qualities, perspectives, values and
everything else that made me as
what I was: I ' m born anew.
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