How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
It's difficult to describe the weirdness of speaking to a man who appears to be perfectly in control of his faculties, who can deliver off-the-cuff repartee, and yet who is actually utterly disconnected from who he is.
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.