| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 15656 |
| QUOTATION: | Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Edward Dahlberg (19001977), U.S. author, critic. Our Vanishing Cooperative Colonies, Alms for Oblivion (1964). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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