Word: oneself
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...become such cynics and spiritual cripples and their hidden regret for their wasted talent eats away at them to such an extent that their wretched existence cannot be called life but rather a caricature of life. It would probably be difficult to think up a worse punishment for oneself than to have to spend one's whole life trembling, cringing, trying fearfully to get the sense of the latest order and fearing to make the slightest mistake...
There is something basically exciting about matching oneself against the best there is, even if defeat is certain. Just as in the last decades, when playing the Yankees was a moving, if disheartening experience. Laver's fellow pros enjoy meeting him in a tournament. It is an aesthetic experience, but if you are Ken Rosewell, who has been unable to beat Laver for four years in any major tournament, the aesthetic gradually give way to a sense of struggling hopelessly against fate...
...month sleepathon that disrupts the order of an entire district and drives Alexander's neighbors to the brink of nervous breakdown before it is finally over. What ends it, and what almost happens to Alexander before he finally decides "to go see...", well, some things, one must discover for oneself...
...penetrate and divide up the action. The former gives one on entire frame and requires that one make sense of it through the juxtapositions that already exist within. No single clear moral judgement is made for one by the director; one must see moral connections between characters oneself. The joy of seeing a film that lets one make one's own moral judgement can hardly be described...
Under normal circumstances, one liberates oneself through quiet thought or tremendous internal crises. Loud acid rock may help some people, it may hinder others...