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Updated: May 14, 2025
When an emotion took possession of him it set him on fire, and the expression of it was like the eruption of a volcano. Toward the end of his course at the academy he had a misunderstanding with his dear friend Scharffenstein, with whom he had sworn eternal brotherhood. The result was a long letter of wild expostulation in this vein: What was the bond of our friendship? Was it selfishness?
For some time past he had been nourishing his soul on forbidden fruit, books that had to be smuggled in and were of course all the more seductive for that very reason. With a few intimates Scharffenstein, the Von Hovens and Petersen he formed a sort of literary club which read and discussed things. What they read spurred them to imitation and to mutual criticism.
Was it frivolity? Was it folly? Was it an earthly, vulgar, or a higher, immortal, celestial bond? Speak! Speak! Oh, a friendship erected like ours might have endured through eternity.... If you or I had died ten times, death should not have filched from us a single hour! What a friendship that might have been! And now! Now! What has become of it?... Hear, Scharffenstein! God is there!
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