“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting
“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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