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Looking back upon the long crisis of his own life (for so he perceived it, as if his selfhood was balanced, always, upon the point of choice—but what choice, he did not know, for this ambivalence was without a real beginning, and without a perceptible end) he felt only disassociated: from his own work, from his father's wishes, from the circumstances under which his country, and his family, had been shamed.