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Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

by Andrzej Sapkowski

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“You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that”
― David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

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“Fawcett agreed that El Dorado, with its plethora of gold, was an “exaggerated romance,” but he was not ready to dismiss the chronicles altogether”
― David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

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“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, “Gone.”
― David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

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“Life is wasted on the living.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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“But by 1925 Fawcett had filled his papers with reams of delirious writings about the end of the world and about a mystical Atlantean kingdom, which resembled the Garden of Eden. Z was transformed into “the cradle of all civilizations” and the center of one of Blavatsky’s “White Lodges,” where a group of higher spiritual beings helped to direct the fate of the universe.”
― David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

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