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“I now walk into the wild.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude

“Let us cultivate our garden.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Become who you are!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

“Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods