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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

by Wade Davis

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“For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.”
― Bill Watterson, It's a Magical World

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“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
― Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader

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“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

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