"Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time."

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I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.

— Lewis H. Lapham