I Dread Success. To Have Succeeded Is To Have Finished One's Business On Earth, Like The Male Spider, Who Is Killed By The Female The Moment He Has Succeeded In His Courtship.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on
earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has
succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a
goal in front and not behind.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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