A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
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