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Never Victorious, Never Defeated QUOTES

Never Victorious, Never Defeated QUOTES

1 " It was a despair in his heart. Slowly, a numbness began in his feet and crept upward, but his thoughts became more intense. Men were born alone; they lived alone. But most terrible of all, they died alone. And died impotent. The impotence was worse, in the last hour, when a man realized that his life had been one endless insult against life and nature and his fellows. Then there was no consolation. There was only the looking down into the abyss. For this loneliness, there was no hope. "

― Taylor Caldwell , Never Victorious, Never Defeated

2 " And when their goal was obtained, they had only two choices before them: gaining even more power, world without end, or dying of frustration when they consciously, or unconsciously, realized that this was not what they had wanted at all, that it gave them no delight, and the world they had attained was empty of everything. They had narrowed their existence; like a projectile, they were trained on only one target.” He walked on, and Cornelia followed, "

― Taylor Caldwell , Never Victorious, Never Defeated