Frankly, is there any excuse for this? There is one, but it is so feeble that I can’t imagine using it. In any case, here it is: I have never been able to believe, deep inside, that human affairs are serious matters. I had no idea what was serious, only that it was not in everything that I saw, which seemed to me merely an amusing, or tedious game. There really are some efforts and beliefs that I have never understood. I would always look with astonishment, and some suspicion, on those strange creatures who died for money or were thrown into despair at the loss of a ‘situation’ or who
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