One of the best books I've read this year

This was written in French... I read it in Portuguese... and I'll transcript it in English... but the meaning is almost impossible to be lost.

- Do you know the sentence: "It takes nine months to make a man and only one day to kill him" ... It's not nine months, it takes fifty years to make a man fifty years of sacrifices, of will, of... so many things! And when that man is done, when nothing more in him is childhood, nor teenager, when he is truly a man, all he has got left is to die.

André Malraux
La Condition Humaine