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by Percival Everett

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Moods of Future Joys: Around the World by Bike - Part 1 by Alastair Humphreys

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If you’re not hurting you’re not riding hard enough. If you’re not hungry you’ve eaten too much. If you’re not cold you’re carrying too many clothes. If you know you will succeed it’s too easy.

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“Age is my alarm clock,” the old man said. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1

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“The less energy we waste regretting the past or worrying about the future, the more energy we will have for what’s in front of us.”
― Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key

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“I have always had a great need for solitude. I require huge swathes of loneliness and when I do not have it, which has been the case for the last five years, my frustration can sometimes become almost panicked, or aggressive.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle: Book 1

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“I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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