I want to make sure if the sentence is impersonal or is it about a specific person


Character A is talking about character B

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> 「…こいつは昔のオレに似ていた。全てを手に入れたつもりで、何でも成せると盲信しようとする。だからこそ己の失敗に怯え、己に失敗は無いのだと自分に嘘をつく。結果、それをごまかす方法として、他人の力を信用しなくなったのがオレだ。」

I understand that
「全てを手に入れたつもりで、何でも成せると盲信しようとする。だからこそ己の失敗に怯え、己に失敗は無いのだと自分に嘘をつく」is about the
speaking character himself, by the meaning. But speaking of grammar only, are
these two sentences impersonal? I mean, if I want to translate it word by word
(into my native language), would it be " ** _I_** did that and that..." or
should it be " ** _To do_** that and that..."?




If your language has a way to form impersonal sentences, that is it. Japanese
grammar does not require marking of subject, thus you can make a sentence that
describes a specific event without subject. In the case, what should stand as
subject in other languages is undefined until further disambiguated by
particles, honorifics, context, or explicit addition.

English does not allow it, so the closest translation would be " **One**
did..." or " **You** did...".

In your example, you can reasonably imagine that all of those actions are the
speaker's, but that is not specified by the grammar. They are just anonymous
actions, with the last sentence that tells one of who has done them is オレ.




If your language has a way to form impersonal sentences, that is it. Japanese
grammar does not require marking of subject, thus you can make a sentence that
describes a specific event without subject. In the case, what should stand as
subject in other languages is undefined until further disambiguated by
particles, honorifics, context, or explicit addition.

English does not allow it, so the closest translation would be " **One**
did..." or " **You** did...".

In your example, you can reasonably imagine that all of those actions are the
speaker's, but that is not specified by the grammar. They are just anonymous
actions, with the last sentence that tells one of who has done them is オレ.

