"A man's character is his fate."
--Heraclitus
"All I say cancels out, I'll have said nothing."
from "The Calmative"
"The reality of the individual is an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently. "
--from Dream of Fair to Middling Women
"All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
--from Worstward Ho
"To be an artist is to fail as no other dare fail, Failure is his world, and the shrink from it is desertion."
-- from "Three Dialogues with George Duthuit"
Don't lose hope. More Words to Live By are coming soon,
© 1989 David Cohen
philosophers can't be wrong.
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