Reflections
1. That I was not to others what up to then I had believed that I was to myself;
2. That I could not see myself living;
3. That, not being able to see myself living, I remained a stranger to myself, that is, one whom others believed they saw and knew, each after his own fashion, but not I;
4. That it was impossible to stand this stranger up in front of me, in order to see and know him. I could see myself, but could no longer see him;
5. That my body, if I regarded it from without, was like an apparition from a dream, a thing that did not know how to live, but which remained waiting there for someone to take it;
6. That, just as I took this my body, to be from time to time