Gunner Ambraelle

“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own, they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal, for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes thinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them while you'd give a year of my life to see a flicker of talent anywhere among them...

...They have no way of knowing what he feels when surrounded by inferiors, hatred? No, not hatred but boredom, the terrible, hopeless, draining, paralyzing boredom. Of what account are praise and adulation from men whom you don't respect? Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something not to look down at but up to?

I've felt it all my life"

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged