this may well have had to do with the fact that they had both been orphans from a young age : somehow this had granted them both the privilege to see themselves as outsiders in any given context , and , in turn , to embrace a mutual empathy which arose amidst their unvanquishable sense of self-imposed isolation ; on the other hand , the nucleus of this shared sentiment may have been centered somewhere deeper and in a much less conspicuous area of human experiencein an area beyond , perhaps , even the grasp of language or memory .