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Pale Fire
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It isn’t that we dream too wild a dream: The trouble is we do not make it seem Sufficiently unlikely; for the most 230 We can think up is a domestic ghost.
“Underwater I hear the water coming to my body, I hear the sunlight penetrating the water.”
― Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
― Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
“One of the hardest skills in freediving is to distinguish between instinct and fear.”
― Oxygen: A Memoir
― Oxygen: A Memoir
“Of the thousands of medicaments in official use, few were truly effective: among these were quinine for malaria, opium as an analgesic, colchicum for gout, digitalis to stimulate the heart, amyl nitrate to dilate the arteries in angina and, introduced in 1896, the versatile aspirin.”
― Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
― Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
“I felt a calmness birds can bring to people; and, quieted, I sensed here the outlines of the oldest mysteries: the nature and extent of space, the fall of light from the heavens, the pooling of time in the present, as if it were water.”
― Arctic Dreams
― Arctic Dreams
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