By some inner contradiction this obsession with death ceased only after the first symptoms of illness came to distract me from that one thought;
Halako jazargo sakon eta harrigarri bat dela medio, heriotzarekiko jaiera obsesibo horrek ez dio nire gogoari erasotzeari utzi, harik-eta gaixotasunaren lehen sintomak neure gogo hori obsesio horretatik lekoraraztera etorri zaizkidan arte;