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Love Thomas’ thoughts on success and age and the actual thing being less exciting than the buildup - ‘When it is finished the pleasure is already gone[…] When one gets one’s wish too late, or works too hard for it, it comes already weighted with all sorts of small vexatious drawbacks - with all the dust of reality upon it, that one did not reckon with in fancy’