Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

–Samuel Becket

(And do not be  tempted  to read this in the  American way,  that  says: Fail until you succeed, but read it in a very European, old-world way. Embrace  this failure, insist on failure being the thing you’re striving for, disappointment being  the most natural  thing and not strive for something.  The very notion of striving is, what distracts you. Be allergic to achievement. Tak failure seriously as an achievement in and by itself. Leave this failure-as-a-pose behind you: It is our loss, that the greatest achievements of the Failure-Artist, his mastery of failing shows itself in his invisibility – what beauty lies in his being overcome and defeated by the world.)