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It was a man very shrewd, very intelligent, very well educated, a lawyer by profession who, while he was convalescing from a heart attack, said to me, "I have been very ambitious, but I failed in my ambitions; only now however do I see that all that, the ambition and the work and the efforts which followed it and depended on it, was futile activity, mere agitation, a filling up of time." He died a year or two later, not a happy man. He had not been without spiritual feelings and intuitions, but his weaknesses, his sensuality, and his ambition overcame him until it was too late--until the shadow of death became his tutor.

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 1 : Death, Dying, and Immortality > # 46