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“As we used to say in the mountains, "Breathe. Breathe again. With every breath, you are alive." After all these years, this still the best advice I can give you: Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.”
― Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
― Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
“There is something unique about the size, and shape, and feel of a real physical book, and there is a real discovery about running your eye along a line of books and picking one out because it somehow LOOKS right.”
― Rite of Passage
― Rite of Passage
“So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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