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Seven years ago I was an interesting person. Now I am a corpse. Yes, madam, I am finished. My star has fallen. I work and I try, yet know that all is but a farce ... I await the end of the tragedy and - strangely detached from everything - I do not feel any more an actor. I feel I am the last of spectators.

Who leaves behind all human bonds, And has cast off the bonds of heaven, Detached from all bonds everywhere: He is the one I call a brahmin.