"I suppose that, whatever serious step one might have taken at twenty-five, after a struggle, and with a violent effort, and however one's conduct might appear to be justified by events, there would always remain a certain element of regret; a certain sense of loss lurking in the sense of gain; a tendency to wonder, rather wishfully, what MIGHT have been. "
"Everything reminds me of something else, and yet of itself at the same time; my imagination makes a great circuit and comes back to the starting-point."
He would have made a great blogger.
(source: "The Diary of a Man at Fifty")
