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“What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and I; and there in the company of other insomniac souls we would look out at the ...”
“What I was sure of was that Tommy had something I'd never seen in anyone else: a blind and unhinged and totally unfounded ambition. He was so out of touch, so lacking in self-awareness, yet also wi...”
“In Russia, the person who put Sevastopol on the literary map was Leo Tolstoy, a veteran of the siege. His fictionalized memoir The Sebastopol Sketches made him a national celebrity. Already with th...”
“Surely there must be in a world of manifold beautiful things something among them for me. And always, while I am still young, there is that dim light, the Future. But it is indeed a dim, dim light,...”
“I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. ...”
“I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.”
“I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, Ah me! I wish I were a widow! Mrs. Keith was precisely the widow that young unmarried ladies wish to be. With her d...”
“I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.”
“...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man -- if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have ...”
“Richard, marked for misery and defeat, acknowledged that power which sentiment possesses to exalt usto convince us that our minds, endowed with a soaring, restless aspiration, can find no repose on...”
“One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.”
“Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.”
“My only career goal is to be an halloween icon.”
“The tonality of my life is hidden behind my ambition.”
“Emperor, king, general, duke, he whispered to himself. These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and youll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.”
“Ambition is the capacity for unhappiness.”
“Ambition's ambition is immortality. To create an eternal legacy.”
“A day in a mans life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.”
“Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.”
“You dont come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isnt a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' there is something s...”
