A wicker basket overflows with crumpled pale paper, with loose pieces scattered beside it on a teal surface.

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Paracelsus ‧ 1835

Robert Browning

Error has no end.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker presents error as something without a final boundary. Mistakes can continue, recur or generate further mistakes, frustrating the hope that they might simply be finished with. The stark wording gives the observation a bleak force, allowing no reassuring point at which error necessarily stops.

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