The Light of Common Day by Diana Cooper

Author:Diana Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2018-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

Conrad replied:

I wonder if you would be happier if you had occupation and spent less time ‘wallowing.’ It’s a problem. I don’t think you’ll ever have men friends who don’t make love to you, and if you did I don’t think you’d like them. The object of life is happiness. I don’t mean that life is a happy condition. I think it is radically wretched, and that misery, suffering and disappointment are the common fate of man. But we ought to aim at being happy, and what makes one happier than being with congenial people one loves and being loved in return? And in moments of gloom and self-abasement it ought to be some alleviation of misery to think: ‘Conrad is a man of good judgment and knows me well, and he adores me and thinks me perfect.’

It is all a question of proportion, I suppose. How much time should be assigned to philandering and how much to graver pursuits? I think you are rather inclined to be morbid on this question of wallowing, and as a man who keeps pigs I don’t think that ‘wallowing’ is a very good name for it. Seeking the society of people who like one is only common sense.

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