The Cinema: School of the Will and of Energy

I do not presume to be making an outlandish discovery by saying that the gravest of modern illnesses is the lack of will. The immediate consequence of this lack of will is the inability to adapt to life and the failure of every youthful hope of conquest. People are not capable of mustering the strength that the struggle requires. And, when it begins, people don’t know how to sustain this effort until they achieve the goal that our ambition put forth. We see the most lively intellects, which seemed destined for brilliant conquests, dissipate into nothing.