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One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable,

One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

Nicole Krauss
Love, Ambition, Night
Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Nicole Krauss
Ambition, Bruises, Ends
"Nicole Krauss: 'I take great pleasure in thinking'". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

Nicole Krauss
Ambition, Men, Lips
Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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