[…] and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. […]

— T.S. Eliot, ‘East Coker’, Four Quartets

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