# Endnotes explained — Three Lives

> Chapter companion for Three Lives by Gertrude Stein.

## What happens

A brief, enigmatic endnote expressing personal unhappiness and a denial of blame directed at either the self or life itself.

## Key lines

> Therefore I am unhappy and it is neither my fault nor that of life.

So I am unhappy, and this unhappiness is not caused by me or by life.

_A concise statement of existential discontent without assigning responsibility._

## Links

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