في مكانٍ ما من العالم، ثمة هزيمةٌ تنتظر كل إنسان. فمنهم من تُهلكه الهزيمة، ومنهم من تُصغّره الانتصارُ وتُدنّيه. أما العظمة فتسكن من ينتصر على الهزيمة والانتصار بالقدر ذاته.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”John Steinbeck — The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (2008)
جون ستاينبيك
مؤلف · 1902–1968. له 237 حكمة في الموقع.
الصورة: McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing the same clothes from her 1935 studio session that produced the work shown here: https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.74