Little will it all last you!...
And with this I conclude--high time that I did!--for the present at any
rate, these essays on the tragic sense of life in men and in peoples, or
at least in myself--who am a man--and in the soul of my people as it is
reflected in mine.
I hope, reader, that some time while our tragedy is still playing, in
some interval between the acts, we shall meet again. And we shall
recognize one another. And forgive me if I have troubled you more than
was needful and inevitable, more than I intended to do when I took up my
pen proposing to distract you for a while from your distractions. And
may God deny you peace, but give you glory!
SALAMANCA, _In the year of grace_ 1912.
FOOTNOTES:
[59] "Que tal?" o "como va?" y es aquella que responde: "se vive!"
[60] Whenever I consider that I needs must die, I stretch my cloak upon
the ground and am not surfeited with sleeping.
[61] No es consuelo de desdichas--es otra desdicha aparte--querer a
quien las padece--persuadir que no son tales (_Gustos y diogustos no son
nies que imagination_, Act I., Scene 4).
[62] _Don Quijote_, part i., chap, i.
[63] Preface.
[64] _El individualismo espanol_, in vol. clxxi., March 1, 1903.
[65] See _El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_, part ii.,
chap. lviii., and the corresponding chapter in my _Vida de Don Quijote y
Sancho_.
[66] In an article which was to have been published on the occasion of
the ultimatum, and of which the original is in the possession of the
Conde do Ameal.
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