:38:02
lt has to be done.
:38:04
l've looked at it all ways.
:38:07
One does not live alone.
One is part of a larger whole.
:38:10
And we always have
to bear the whole in mind.
:38:13
We are entirely dependent on it.
:38:15
lf l lived in isolation,
l could drop the matter.
:38:19
l would bear the burden assigned to me.
:38:22
My happiness would be over, but...
:38:25
so many have to live without happiness...
:38:27
and l would have to as well, and l could.
:38:30
One does not have to be happy.
:38:32
Least of all, one has a right to be.
:38:35
One wouldn't need to remove
from the world the person...
:38:39
who has robbed us of our happiness.
:38:41
One could also...
:38:43
let him go free,
if one turned one's back on the world.
:38:48
But...
:38:50
in living together in society,
a certain something has evolved.
:38:54
lt simply exists...
:38:56
and we're accustomed
to judging everything by its rules.
:39:00
Others...
:39:01
and ourselves.
:39:03
One cannot contravene them...
:39:05
without society despising us.
:39:07
We wouId come to despise ourseIves, too...
:39:10
and uItimateIy bIow our brains out.
:39:15
Forgive my holding forth like this
and merely saying...
:39:18
what everyone has said
to himself a hundred times.
:39:22
But then...
:39:24
who can really say anything new?
:39:27
I repeat...
:39:29
it's not a matter of hatred
or personaI happiness.
:39:33
That tyrannicaI sociaI eIement...
:39:37
is not concerned with charm or Iove...
:39:40
or the Iapse of time.
:39:42
I have no choice.
:39:44
I simpIy have to.
:39:47
I'm not so sure, Innstetten.
:39:49
You must decide, WuIIersdorf.
:39:52
It's ten o'cIock now.
:39:55
Six hours ago, I admit...
:39:58
I stiII had a free hand.