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A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.

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No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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Born: March 1, 1892
Died: July 24, 1927 (aged 35)
Bio: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story" and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him.
Known for:
  1. Rashōmon (1915)
  2. Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
  3. Hell Screen (1918)
  4. In a Grove (1922)
  5. Kappa

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