on the verge of a usual mistake

"I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake."
— Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)

AYAĞINA DİKEN BATTI GÜL SANDIM; GÜL SANDIM AMAN (misreading)

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"My mistakes are my life."

— Samuel Beckett

"Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts."
— Nikki Giovanni

"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness."
— Mother Teresa (A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations)

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
— Niels Bohr

"Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent."
— Mark Twain

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"
— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts"
— Jim Morrison

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
— James Joyce (Ulysses)

"Did you sleep well?"
"No, I made a couple of mistakes."
— Steven Wright

"He longed to ascend through the roof and fly away to another country where he would never hear again of his trouble . . ." (67-68)

James Joyce's "Eveline"