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Why did she do it? Nobody dared to ask. Because - what courage! Who had the courage to burn herself? Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way. What was that moment like for her? The moment she lit the match. Had she already tried roofs and guns and aspirins? Or was it just an inspiration? I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that today I had to swallow fifty aspirin. It was my task: my job for the day. I lined them up on my desk and took them one by one, counting. But it's not the same as what she did. I could have stopped, at ten, or at thirty. And I could have done what I did do, which was go onto the street and faint. Fifty aspirin is a lot of aspirin, but going onto the street and fainting is like putting the gun back in the drawer. She lit the match.


Susanna Kaysen


#failed-attempt #gun #match #suicide #courage

There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments, but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.


Anton Chekhov


#failure #rejection #writing #disappointment

God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.


Criss Jami


#failure #falling #glory-of-god #god #healing

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.


M. Thomas Gammarino


#creativity #failure #japan

Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What you think is what counts.


Rodolfo Costa


#fear-of-failure #opinion #self-confidence #self-doubt #self-confidence

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.


Maude Adams


#day #do your best #endeavor #every #every day

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.


Scott Adams


#because #becoming #cartoonist #executive #failed

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.


James Lane Allen


#achieves #direct #direct result #fails #his

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.


Ben Affleck


#attempt #enough #failed #first #first thing

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.


Fred Allen


#crop #days #each #failure #first






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