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The Perfume Concert I want to buy anything, but just to match colors, you know. It gives me a thrill that nothing else does.

Some of us are like that—some of us truly Sensitized Souls—we function, I mean, quite without being able to stop it—I hope you follow me. Isn't it wonderful to be in touch with the Universe in that way! Not, of course, that the shop girls who show you the fabrics and things are always understanding.

The working classes are so often ungrateful to us advanced thinkers. Sometimes I am almost provoked to the point of giving up my Social Betterment work when I think how ungrateful they are. But some of us, in every age, must suffer at the hands of the masses for the sake of the masses, if you know what I mean.