Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Patricia Highsmith
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The idea that life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart, is very true. It’s easy to see how, when you’re young, you don’t embrace failure. You see it as something that is imperfect and flawed and not good enough. However, as you get older and find experience, some of those mistakes turn into learning experiences and failures turn into lessons. In other words, as time goes on and we do more things wrong, we learn from our mistakes and turn those failures into something good.

Source: Nothing That Meets The Eye: The Uncollected Stories Of Patricia Highsmith

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