What Is Real Life

                  The great thing,if one can, is to stop regarding all the

                  unpleasant things as interruptions of one's "own",or

                  "real" life.The truth is of course that what one calls the

                  interruptions are precisely one's real life;the life is

                  sending to us day by day;what one calls one's "real life"

                  is a phantom of one's own imagination.

 

                                                             ---from a letter to Arthur Greeves,20 December 1943