Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.
The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).
The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.