There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen
Related to the previous entry on raising children, the message here is that perfection, even if attainable, isn't desirable. It is the cracks and faults in a thing that help illuminate it for us.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No Matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
In a reality where cracks and faults remain with us and haunt us, failure is an inevitable feature of existence. The task then is not to avoid failure - a futile endeavour - but to learn how to 'fail better'.