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distinguishing the true mountain lover from the mechanical; the one drawn by the lure of aesthetic satisfaction, the other driven by the mass demand for statistics with their sheep-like acclaim for physical priority.
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David Foster Wallace
“You don’t have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness … has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I’m going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.”
David Foster Wallace

Thomas Carlyle
“The first duty for a man is still that of subduing Fear. We must get rid of Fear; we cannot act at all till then. A man's acts are slavish, not true but specious; his very thoughts are false, he thinks too as a slave and coward till he have got Fear under his feet. Odin's creed, if we disentangle the real kernel of it, is true to this hour. A man shall and must be valiant; he must march forward and quit himself like a man - trusting imperturbably in the appointment and choice of the upper Powers; and on the whole not fear at all. Now and always, the completeness of his victory over Fear will determine how much of a man he is.”
Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

Rainer Maria Rilke
“His smile was so soft and fine:
like gleaming old ivory,
like homesickness, like a Christmas snowfall
in the dark village, like turquoise
around which many pearls are fashioned,
like moonlight
on a favorite book.

-in Mädchenmelancholie (Girls' melancholy)”
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images
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Seneca
“The person you are matters more than the place to which you go;”
Seneca, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

George Bernard Shaw
“You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.”
George Bernard Shaw, Arms and the Man

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