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 Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.  Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity. Having a goal is a state of happiness. I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on. Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon. Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially, but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality. A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living colour. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday. It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going. He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius, according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself. Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor. As the little boy said to the Sunday School teacher after being told the reason we are on Earth is to help others: "Then what are the others here for?" Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice. Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic. The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions. To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. 
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