The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.
Eiji YoshikawaTo Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful weed, trodden underfoot -- a conglomeration of human lives putting down roots in this slime, living and letting live in the struggle to survive; and he was stirred by the fearful and magnificent courage communicated by the scene.
Eiji Yoshikawa