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Kevin O'Brien
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With the last sentence Blyth stumbles across the credo of all adventurers, be they sailors, mountaineers, or explorers. The where and how is simply the means to burrow as deeply as posssible into oneself. It’s the answer to the relentless
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“With the last sentence Blyth stumbles across the credo of all adventurers, be they sailors, mountaineers, or explorers. The where and how is simply the means to burrow as deeply as posssible into oneself. It’s the answer to the relentless question that floods the mind when the exercise becomes painful and severe: What am I doing here? What’s the point?”
― A Voyage for Madmen
― A Voyage for Madmen
“I am neither happy nor sad, neither really tense nor really relaxed. Perhaps that is the way it is when a man gazes at the stars, asking himself questions he is not mature enough to answer. So one day he is happy, the next a bit sad without knowing why. It is a little like the horizon: for all your distinctly seeing sky and sea come together on the same line, for all your constantly making for it, the horizon stays at the same distance, right at hand and out of reach.”
― The Long Way: Sheridan House Maritime Classic
― The Long Way: Sheridan House Maritime Classic
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