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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

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

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

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.


Woody Allen


#because #chess #failed #height #i

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.


Marc Andreessen


#dot-com #every #failed #idea #succeed

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.


Naveen Andrews


#failed #good #good parent #i #i am

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.


Antonin Artaud


#causes #cleanse #despair #eliminate #failed

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.


Victoria Abril


#always #classes #could #course #dance

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.


Dante Alighieri


#capacity #describe #failed #high #moment

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security.


Charles Foster Bass


#after #clinton #clinton administration #committee #designs






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