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"When I hear the word 'peace-time,' it goes to my head: and if it really came, I think I would do some unimaginable thing-something, you know, that it's worth having lain here in the muck for. But I can't even imagine anything. All I do know is that this business about professions and studies and salaries and so on—it makes me sick, it is and always was disgusting. I don't see anything at all.”

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“You still think I am a child—why can I not put my head in your lap and weep? Why have I always to be strong and self-con-trolled? I would like to weep and be comforted too, indeed I am little more than a child; in the wardrobe still hang short, boy's trousers —it is such a little time ago, why is it over?”