Painterly small pebble splashing into dark water with spreading circular ripples.

Original artwork, not a still

Graham Greene

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The image of ripples reaching a wider coastline gives success a larger field of consequences than failure. Achievement is presented as dangerous because its effects spread. The comparison challenges uncomplicated praise of success by drawing attention to what its greater reach may disturb.

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