to the important things that the truest kind of life consists of. only the individual who is solitary is placed under the deepest laws like a thing, and when he walks out into the rising dawn or looks out into the event-filled evening and when he feels what is happening there, all situations drop from him as if from a dead man, though he stands in the midst of pure life. what you, dear mr. kappus, now have to experience as an officer, you would have felt in just the same way in any of the established professions; yes, even if, outside any position, you had simply tried to find some easy and independent contact with society, this feeling of being hemmed in would not have been spared you. it is like this everywhere; but that is no cause for anxiety or sadness; if there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to things; they will not abandon you; and the nights are still there, and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of

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