

“A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
― Walden
― Walden

“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 future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods

“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

“By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting
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