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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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