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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett
As T. S. Eliot wrote, in a brilliant and painstaking way: I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing: wait without love for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
David Whyte • The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
As Samuel Beckett wrote, “We spend our life, it’s ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench.”
Evan Puschak • Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions
— George Eliot, 1879
Dylano | Essayful • Tweet
being—for what being can be stranger than oneself, or act more inexplicably?
Gene Wolfe • The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
what am I without those who understand me?
Andre Alexis • Fifteen Dogs
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubt, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. —Francis Bacon
Sergio De La Pava • A Naked Singularity
He said that where expectations are few disappointments are rare.