a passion in the des

It's about a French soldier in the desert, almost dead, lying in a cave. When he wakes up, he finds a wild animal lying next to him. It's a leopard with blood on its mouth. Fortunately, the leopard was full and did him no harm. The soldier wanted to kill her with a dagger, but then he changed his mind and stroked her with a gentle gesture. However, the soldier was still afraid, and ran away while the leopard was fast asleep, but the leopard came up not far, and by this time he was in the quicksand, and the leopard grabbed him by the collar and rescued him. At the end of the article, the soldier killed the leopard purely by accident. The leopard bit him gently on the thigh. He thought the leopard was going to eat him, so he put a dagger into the neck of the beast. In this passage, the protagonist of the text talks about "I think there is no place like the desert" and "there is no man but god". Indeed, he felt in the desert what he could not feel in human society.