“Accept yourself: be yourself. That seems a good rule. But which self? Even the simplest of us are complicated enough.”
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“e are in a desperate state, feet frozen &c. No fuel and a long way from food, but it would do your heart good to be in our tent, to hear our songs and the cheery conversation as to what we will do when we get to Hut Point.”
― Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
― Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
“I would rather that my bones had been left to bleach in the desert than have yielded an inch of ground I had gained at so much expense and trouble.”
― Expedition into Central Australia
― Expedition into Central Australia
“Those Hut Point days, would prove some of the happiest of my life. Just enough to eat and keep warm, no more - no frills or trimmings: there is many a worse and more elaborate life...the luxuries of civilisation satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.”
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“Should this be found I want these facts recorded. Oates' last thoughts were of his Mother, but immediately before he took pride in thinking that his regiment would be pleased with the bold way in which he met his death. We can testify to his bravery. He has borne intense suffering for weeks without complaint, and to the very last was able and willing to discuss outside subjects. He did not - would not - give up hope to the very end. He was a brave soul. This was the end. He slept through the night before last, hoping not to wake; but he woke in the morning - yesterday. It was blowing a blizzard. He said, 'I am just going outside and may be some time.' He went out into the blizzard and we have not seen him since.”
― Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
― Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
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