"Better was it to go unknown and..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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“You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.”
“Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.”
“There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.”
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“Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.”
“I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.”
“I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.”
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“Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.”
“Floyd Paterson? Boy, he's the complete opposite to me. He no way like me. They go down in history for just being athletes. I'm getting more praise and credit for doing what I'm doing now on this show than coming here and beating five of your English champions.”
“I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.”