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Damann is Currently Reading

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The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas

by Scott Ellsworth

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Sep 03, 2026 11:47AM

Damann’s Quotes

“I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again.
If by chance it is not night.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

tags: hope

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“I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need them against the vulgarity of the world.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

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“Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

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“[Vanity's] an unrecognized form of stupidity... you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that’s a glaring form of stupidity.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

tags: vanity

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