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  1. A quotation from Victor Hugo

    He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
     
    [Il avait glissé, grimpé, roulé, cherché, marché, persévéré, voilà tout. Secret de tous les triomphes.]

    Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French writer, journalist, human rights activist, politician
    The Man Who Laughs [L’Homme qui rit; The Laughing Man; By Order of the King], Part 1, Book 3, ch. 1 (1.3.1) (1869) [tr. Unknown, Authorized (1871)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/85611/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #themanwholaughs #accomplishment #courage #determination #doggedness #endurance #meme #moveforward #perseverance #persistence #sticktoit #success #tenacity #triumph

  2. Reaching

    peacegroover@deviantart

    When I write
    I find myself reaching—

    reaching
    reaching
    reaching
    reaching

    for something.

    Satisfaction.
    Accomplishment.
    Arrival.

    There is none now.

    Only words.
    More words.
    Another page.

    Perhaps
    I still have far to climb.

    Perhaps
    I have mistaken a hill
    for a mountain.

    Perhaps
    the pinnacle
    was never there.

    Perhaps there is no
    there.

    Only this:

    the reaching,
    the climbing,
    the wanting
    to arrive.

    And still
    nothing.

    No summit.
    No flag.
    No voice saying—

    enough.

    Perhaps
    I am not finished.

    Perhaps
    I never will be.

    Or perhaps

    this is only doubt and hope —

    standing at the bottom
    of something,

    looking up.

    (Journal entry April 8, 1986, age 19, expanded 40 years later)

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