“Adrenaline may fuel short bursts of exertion, but there is no "third wind.”
― Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
― Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
“If the only answer is silence, sit down, regain your calm, and combat terror with reason.
Once you have calmed down, start doing the right things.”
― Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
Once you have calmed down, start doing the right things.”
― Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
“If you are twittering, innovate in order to find a way to describe your internal state instead of trivial external events, to avoid the creeping danger of believing that objectively described events define you, as they would define a machine.”
― You Are Not a Gadget
― You Are Not a Gadget
“but it is the waiting that is unbearable, this suspension of time when something has not yet happened and where we feel how very useless it is to struggle”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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