But I saw now that we are not free to abstain from forging the chains of our own misery, and that however well we may know our own will, other people do not obey it. And yet those painful, those ineluctable truths which dominated us and to which we were blind, the truth of our sentiments, the truth of our destiny, how often without knowing it, without meaning it, we have expressed them in words in which we ourselves doubtless thought that we were lying, but the prophetic value of which has been established by subsequent events.
