Granting that I had in the course of all my painful transmutations made some invisible and unaccountable gain, I had had to pay dearly for it; and at every turn my life was harsher, more difficult, lonely and perilous.
Baldin nire aldaketa hain samingarrien bidez ikusi eta neurtu ezin litekeen zerbait irabazi banuen, oso garesti ordaindu behar izan nuen eta aldian aldian gogorragoa, zailagoa, bakartiagoa eta arriskutsuagoa bilakatu zitzaidan bizitza.