“I am not so wonderful but that in the hour of my triumph I am frightened by my own littleness.”
Miramon, in Ch. IV : In the Doubtful Palace
Figures of Earth (1921)
Context: I am not so wonderful but that in the hour of my triumph I am frightened by my own littleness. Look you, Niafer, I had thought I would be changed when I had become a famous champion, but for all that I stand posturing here with this long sword, and am master of the hour and of the future, I remain the boy that last Thursday was tending pigs.
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