I was afraid of the tender notions of love which so often came to me.
One thing I lacked most of all—a friend. There were two or three schoolfellows whom I liked very much.
But they belonged to the good set and my vices had for a long time been a secret to no one.
They avoided me. With all I passed for a hopeless gamester under whose feet the very earth quaked.
The masters knew much about me, severe punishments were several times inflicted on me,
my final expulsion from the school was waited for with more or less certainty.
I knew that myself; for a long time I had ceased to be a good pupil;
I got through my work by hook or by crook, with the feeling that the state of affairs could not last much longer.
There are many ways by which God can make us feel lonely and lead us to a consciousness of ourselves.
With me it was in this way: it was like a bad dream, in which I saw myself ostracized, foul and clammy,
creeping restlessly and painfully over broken beer glasses, down an abominably unclean road.
There are such dreams, when you imagine you have set out to find a beautiful princess,
전체재생
다음페이지
문장검색