What does this quote mean?
What does this quote mean, especially the second sentence?
"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."
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It's not straightforward English. It's colorful. The writer--a Google search tells me it is William Faulkner--admires himself and his group for TRYING to do the impossible. He thinks it is wonderful, "splendid," to try for something wonderful even if you don't achieve it. They failed, but the failures are "splendid failures."
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