The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
Being gifted needs courage.
Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.
I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.