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[1527] living, in a kind of way, in the only
possible way?[1528] That's the combination.
[1529] Or ^{by the absurd} prove to me that I am,
the absurd not being able.[1530] Unfortunately
it is no help my being forewarned, I never
remain so for long.[1531] In any case I wish
him every success, in his courageous under-
taking.

[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 knowing my ability.
[1533] Worm, to say he does not know what he is,
where he is, what is happening, is an under-
statement.[1534] What he does not is that there
there is anything to know.

[1535] His senses tell him
nothing, nothing about himself, nothing
about the rest, and this distinction is unknown
to him.

[1536] Feeling nothing, knowing nothing,
he exists nevertheless, but not for himself,
for ^{men, men} conceive 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-ignorant, that haunts
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 what one
is, what one was, during the wild dream,
up above, under the sky, ^{venturing forth} at night.

[1545] The one ignorant of ^himself and silent ^{[ADDITION]Addition on page 17vThe one who in speechless ignorance
of himself} , 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.[1548] They are en-
couraging.[1549] And it's not all.[1550] He who searches
for his true face, let him be of good cheer,
he'll find it, convulsed with anguish, and 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.[1553] Worm, be Worm, you'll see, it's
impossible, what a velvet glove, a little worn at
the knuckles with all the hard hitting. (bashing).[1554]
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