A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
You see in others who you are.
Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.