Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it. - Joseph Conrad

Youth is insolent; it is its right – its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence…

One must have lived on such diet to discover what ghastly trouble the necessity of swallowing one's food become.

Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished.