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[1531] every success, in his courageous undertaking.[1532] And
I am even prepared to collaborate with him, as with Mahood and Co,
to the best of my ability, being unable to do otherwise, and know-
ing my ability.[1533] Worm, to say he does not know what he is, where
he is, what is happening, is an understatement.[1534] What he does not
know is that there is anything to know.
[1535] His senses tell him noth-
ing, nothing about himself, nothing about the rest, and this dis-
tinction is beyond him.[1536] Feeling nothing, knowing nothing, he
exists nevertheless, but not for himself, for other men, men con-
ceive him and say, Worm is here, since we conceive him, as if
there could be no life but life conceived, if only by him who
lives it.[1537] Men.[1538] One alone, then others.
[1539] One alone turned towards the
all-impotent, all-nescient, that inhabits him, then others.[1540] Towards
him whom he would nourish, he the famished one, and who, having
nothing human, has nothing else, has nothing, is nothing.[1541] Come
into the world unborn, abiding there unliving, with no hope of
death, epicentre of joys, of griefs, of calm.[1542] Which seems the
truest possession, because the [/]most unchanging.
[1543] The one outside
of life we always were in the end, all our long vain life long.
[1544] Who is not spared by the mad need to speak, to think, to
know where one is, where one was, during the wild dream, up above,
under the skies, venturing forth at night.[1545] The one ignorant of
himself and silent, ignorant of his silence and silent, who could
not be and gave up trying.
[1546] Who crouches in their midst who see
themselves in him and in their eyes stares his unchanging stare.
[1547] Thanks for these first notions.[1549] And it's not all.[1550] He who seeks his
true face, let him be of good cheer, he'll find it, convulsed with
anguish, the eyes out on stalks.[1551] He who desires to have lived,
while he was alive, let him be reassured, life will tell him how.
[1552] That's all very comforting.Worm, be Worm, you'll see, it's im-
[1553] Worm, be Worm, you'll see, it's im-
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