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Only now and then the question would surge up in his mind, "Who am I? What am I? What was I? What shall I become?"
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The first had declared that he had never in all his life performed "beautifying operations"; the second examined exclusively the blind-gut; and the third declared Andreas to be "perfectly crazy".
Most people would probably have agreed with this third specialist: for Andreas believed that in reality he was not a man, but a woman.
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I am like a wretched grub which is waiting to become a butterfly.
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All his bridges were burned. Everything lay behind him. His whole life seemed to him to be something that was past, something that was lost.
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"...Frequently the question plagues me: Have I had only a past, or have I had no past at all? Or have I only a future without a past?"
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Andreas seized his friend's hand. "Elena, I only mean... I only hope... How shall I express it?"
Elena looked very seriously at her friend, who was pale with excitement. "Go on, Andreas."
And then he blurted out: "... That he will not regard me merely as a sorry renegade... because... I would rather be a woman than a man."
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Slowly he undressed. He stood nude in front of the mirror. He thought of an expression he had used that evening : "I am like one who only owns the façade of his house." The mirror in front of him showed him the façade. It was the unblemished body of a man.
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