Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly … - Stefan Zweig

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Star Anna is an American original. She sings from a place of beauty that takes me to a higher place.

Stefan Zweig

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

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