Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong: beauty <br/>enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be <br/>defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, <br/>peolpe of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as <br/>it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night; we wake <br/>up to it again for ever and ever; we can neither forget it nor deny it <br/>nor dispense with it.
Henry James