World Within World Quotes

“The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.”
― Stephen Spender, World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

“At these best moments a great humility fused with a great ambition: to be only what I was, but to the utmost of what I was.”
― Stephen Spender, World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender