“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
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“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
― Lord Jim
― Lord Jim
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
Around the World in 80 Books
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