“You’re not supposed to talk about your good deeds, I know. It effectively negates them and in the process makes people hate you.”
― Calypso
― Calypso
“The absolute simplicity. That's what I love. When you're climbing your mind is clear and free from all confusions. You have focus. And suddenly the light becomes sharper, the sounds are richer and you're filled with the deep, powerful presence of life. I've only felt that one other time.”
― Seven Years in Tibet
― Seven Years in Tibet
“They play with unflinching seriousness, as if life depended upon the flick of a piece or the snap of a clock - and it does. Some of these men have lost jobs and wives playing night after night, usually against the same opponent. . . . Night after night, the same men sit across from one another in the same chairs. They seem to have no sense of the passing of time.”
― Searching for Bobby Fischer: A Father's Story of Love and Ambition
― Searching for Bobby Fischer: A Father's Story of Love and Ambition
“Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“He has asked himself sometimes if solitude is preferable to boredom or betrayal, which seemed to be the inevitable end of all happy love affairs, of all happy marriages. People clung to one another out of fear. K.D. has preferred the integrity of being alone. He was a realist, he is. He has the strength to face death alone.”
― Sacred Games
― Sacred Games
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