STILL LESS

To divest oneself on unecessary possessions, and mainly of other people: that was the business of life.
One had to find out what things were not necessary, what things one really needed. A little music and liquor, still less food, a warm and beautiful but not to big roof of one's own, a channel for one's creative energy and love, the sun and the moon.
(T. H. White | The Goshawk)