It is not because the truth is

“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Category: failure
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But whatever my failure, I have this

“But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember – that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.”

— Robert E. Howard

Author: Robert E. Howard
Category: failure
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