My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.[Ma vie, ma vie, tantôt j’en parle comme d’une chose finie, tantôt comme d’une plaisanterie qui dure encore, et j’ai tort, car elle est finie et elle dure à la fois, mais par quel temps du verbe exprimer cela? Horloge qu’ayant remontée l’horloger enterre, avant de mourir, et dont les rouages tordus parleront un jour de Dieu, aux vers. ]
Source:(Grove Press, ed. 1955), Part I, Page 47
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