"… What I thought about most was luxury. I had never realized before that it is
more than just having things; it makes the very air feel different. And I feel
different, breathing the air: relaxed, lazy, still sad but with the edge taken
off the sadness. Perhaps the effect wears off in time, or perhaps you don’t
notice it if you are born to it, but it does seem to me that the climate of
richness must always be a little dulling to the senses. Perhaps it takes the
edge off of joy as well as off sorrow.
And though I cannot honestly say I would ever turn my back on any luxury I could
come by, I do feel there is something a bit wrong in it. Perhaps that makes it
all the more enjoyable."
more than just having things; it makes the very air feel different. And I feel
different, breathing the air: relaxed, lazy, still sad but with the edge taken
off the sadness. Perhaps the effect wears off in time, or perhaps you don’t
notice it if you are born to it, but it does seem to me that the climate of
richness must always be a little dulling to the senses. Perhaps it takes the
edge off of joy as well as off sorrow.
And though I cannot honestly say I would ever turn my back on any luxury I could
come by, I do feel there is something a bit wrong in it. Perhaps that makes it
all the more enjoyable."
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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