... Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better! Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho, 1983.

... Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves. James Joyce, Ulysses - Chapter One Episode Nine 'Scylla and Charybdis', 1922.