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i think Buzzati's Tartare Steppe might answer. It's about a man who never dares to start all over. Also:
>If you can keep your head when all about you
> Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
> But make allowance for their doubting too;
>If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
> Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
>Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
> And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

>If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
> If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
>If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
> And treat those two impostors just the same;
>If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
> Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
>Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
> And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

>If you can make one heap of all your winnings
> And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
>And lose, and start again at your beginnings
> And never breathe a word about your loss;
>If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
> To serve your turn long after they are gone,
>And so hold on when there is nothing in you
> Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

>If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
> Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
>If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
> If all men count with you, but none too much;
>If you can fill the unforgiving minute
> With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
>Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
> And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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