#fame

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fame #immortality #unfinished-works #writing #literary-criticism

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. ↗

— Aeschylus

#children #death #fame #his #man

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#influence #money

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names. ↗

— Mary Austin

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It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it. ↗

— Jane Badler

#because #fame #good #good thing #happen

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man. ↗

— Adam Baldwin

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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ↗

— Lucius Accius

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