In a state near to despair he decided at last to complete his father's educational scheme and escape secretly to Italy, the land where Winckelmann had found fulfilment in the study of ancient art and architecture and which Claude Lorrain and Jacob Philipp Hackert (two artists whom he particularly admired) had depicted as an earthly paradise.
Moreover, a man who is not sensually fulfilled is an imperfect man; when that fulfilment comes, a man becomes more complete and that can help the writer.' Naipaul, who was in a passionless marriage for much of his life, has found something like that fulfilment only recently.
Glanville-Hicks read Durrell's play Sappho (originally written in 1950) and identified with the eponymous heroine: "an ageing, tragic, rich, successful, famous lady who, mystic at heart, has never found fulfilment despite having had everything".
Now 28, Payze has found a new sense of fulfilment - enjoying a career as a fully qualified chartered engineer.
It somehow seems symbolic of a director who has found much of his joy and fulfilment in life through work.
Job security is a key pillar of professional fulfilment and academic research has found that feeling settled in a job can increase motivation and productivity and reduces the likelihood of staff taking time off work due to illness.
20 Research including systematic reviews has found that patient experiences and satisfaction are associated with general satisfaction, perceptions of incorrect treatment, 9 13 24 health status, health outcomes, fulfilment of expectations.
Given that he'd appeared to have found some spiritual fulfilment and was reportedly happily married to Laurie Anderson in latter years, those words are painfully on the money.
After finally leaving the military in 1983, and an unsettled 18 months as director-general of the Food and Drink Federation, he found fulfilment in industrial training and charity work, raising money for research into liver diseases after himself having a liver transplant.
At 18, I had left home for college three hours away to find fulfilment (and that dating pool) promised to queer kids like me.
