the vanity of life, confirmed as they were by the greatest

thinkers, there was something not right about them. Whether it was

in the reasoning itself or in the statement of the question I did

not know -- I only felt that the conclusion was rationally

convincing, but that that was insufficient. All these conclusions

could not so convince me as to make me do what followed from my

reasoning, that is to say, kill myself. And I should have told an

untruth had I, without killing myself, said that reason had brought