The cowardly fear of exposing one's lack of talent, and the terror that even after grinding effort, one's innate insufficiency might become all the more apparent.
人生は何事をも為さぬには余りに長いが、何事かを為すには余りに短い。
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Atsushi Nakajima
Nakajima Atsushi (1909-1942) was a Japanese writer whose masterpiece 'The Moon Over the Mountain' reimagined a Chinese classical tale to explore the tragic relationship between artistic ambition and self-destruction. Despite dying of asthma at just 33, his stories of scholars consumed by their obsessions remain staples of Japanese education.
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