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Jane Wolfe Diary Entry Thursday, 11 February 1926
Have had days of physical depression but think I am improving.
Austerity that has its birth in knowledge. (Or should the word be 'ascetism'?) Can one really have this fine quality without much knowledge? knowledge of life? without this, it could only be a cold narrow life, if not a harsh intolerance? (Dynamic ascetism, not merely static repression).
I cannot getaway from feeling that one should keep the physical body in sound health and vigour. There is always the tendency to over-eat, over-drink, over sleep—to get soft and flabby generally, as life unfolds.
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