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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and
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“You’re a classic case of Horney’s: the man who comforts himself not with what he achieves, but with what he dreams of achieving.”
― The Dice Man
― The Dice Man
“I’ve come to the realization that I’m always thinking and listening to two things at once.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: ‘Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome’.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
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