"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.“


-J. K. Rowling

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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.

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