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 triumph itself. Iam a worshipper of failure; by the true power of failure I wish to reach the success.

People say that they get experiences from life; but that is hardly truth, When your dream turns to experiences by strange magic, it is there where your life begins. Experiences are not the fact, but imagination.

We are often optimistic because we are, in our heart of hearts, dreadfully pessimistic.

When a man marries again, that is from the reason, more than any other reason, that he likes to emphasise his life’s failure, that is to mean, he wishes to keep up the atmosphere he created at the cost of failure. To say men risk their luck is wrong; there are only few men who understand what luck means.

Japan is not so prosaic as the Western countries where one’s defects or originality are too exaggerated. The real Japanese originality is in our love of the commonplace. Rh