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“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.”
― The Hunger Games
― The Hunger Games
“Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude “that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.”
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“Many men are better fitted for improving chances offered them than in turning up the chances themselves.”
― The Wright Brothers
― The Wright Brothers
“He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.”
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“markers”
― Dory Fantasmagory: The Real True Friend
― Dory Fantasmagory: The Real True Friend
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