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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.