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When Compagnoni died fifty-four years after the climb, his obituary in the New York Times focused on his choice to move the tent. A snap decision on K2 had cemented his reputation as the Judas of mountaineering.
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
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“God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.”
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“In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.”
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“A person who...does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs."
[Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538]”
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[Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538]”
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