My
view is that for the invert, far more than for the ordinary
person, there is no escape from the supreme necessity of
self-control in any relationship he may form. If that be attained
then the ideal is a relationship with another man of similar
temperament--not a platonic one, necessarily--by means of which
the highest happiness of both may be reached. But this can occur
_very_ seldom.
"To poetry and the fine arts I am very susceptible, and I have
given a great deal of time to this study. I am devoted heart and
soul to music, which is more and more to me every year I live.
Trivial or light music I cannot endure, but of Beethoven, Bach,
Haendel, Schumann, Schubert, Brahms, Tschaikowsky, and Wagner I
should never hear enough. Here, too, my sympathies, are very
catholic, and I delight in McDowell, Debussy, Richard Strauss,
and Hugo Wolf."
HISTORY VII.--"My parentage is very sound and healthy. Both my
parents (who belong to the professional middle class) have good
general health; nor can I trace any marked abnormal or diseased
tendency, of mind or body, in any records of the family.
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