I know! I know! Whatever may have happened is now atoned for! There can be a renewed life, a deliverance achieved by ourselves, and I feel that this has been vouchsafed me. I am once more free! I can return to the world and remove the bandage from my brow!
To the world! What is the world? I have it within me. I am in the world, and the world is in me. I am!
I have sung again for the first time. Oh, how much good it did me! No one heard me but myself.
No bird sings for itself; it sings for its mate. Man alone can sing and think for himself. He alone possesses self-consciousness.
The calm of morn, which is always so dear to me, now seems to last during the whole day.
Yonder brook often seems to roar much more loudly than at other times. It is because a sudden wind catches it and bears the sound-waves toward me.