The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
Source: The Wisdom of the Heart, Reflections of Writing, 1947.
-- Henry Miller, (Dec 26 1891-1980), US novelist; His sexually candid novels, Tropic of Cancer, 1934 and Tropic of Capricorn, 1939 were banned in U.S. until 1960s.