it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
Civilized life exacts its toll.
We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
People have never lost what they think they have.
As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.