Whatever becomes of Kim, whatever his success or unsuccess in the world of action, ‘would not the lama still remain before him as a loving apparition of a ‘Way’ never to be accepted wholly but never to be abandoned wholly?’
Only winning lets you tell the truth - every shade of mediocrity, of unsuccess, of half-success, involves you in little explanations, regrets, resentments, complaints, delusions.
But I stated that one great cause of unsuccess is in the absence of information among the population generally.
The old and celebrated firm of Austrian Magyar, whose affairs have long been handled with such distinguished unsuccess by members of the Hapsburg family, observed some time ago that bankruptcy was not far away.