“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.