You will,therefore,permit me to concede your entire argument,and yet contrive means to escape your dilemma.
Your position is this,I hear you say:"Either you have hopes of obtaining Charlotte,or you have none. Well,in the first case,pursue your course,and press on to the fulfilment of your wishes. In the second,be a man,and shake off a miserable passion,which will enervate and destroy you."My dear friend,this is well and easily said.
But would you require a wretched being,whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease,to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger?Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?
You may answer me,if you please,with a similar analogy,"Who would not prefer the amputation of an arm to the periling of life by doubt and procrastination!"But I know not if I am right,and let us leave these comparisons.
Enough!There are moments,Wilhelm,when I could rise up and shake it all off,and when,if I only knew where to go,I could fly from this place.
THE SAME EVENING.
My diary,which I have for some time neglected,came before me today;and I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly,and yet to have acted so like a child!Even still I behold the result plainly,and yet have no thought of acting with greater prudence.
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