If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
Rereading, we find a new book.
Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.
Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.