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“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
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“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine….”
― Be Water, My Friend: The True Teachings of Bruce Lee
― Be Water, My Friend: The True Teachings of Bruce Lee
“Whoever makes his journey to a tyrant’s court Becomes his slave, although he went there a free man.”
― Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
― Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Sailing Alone around the World
― Sailing Alone around the World
“For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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