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“Asking the question ‘What are the trees doing?’ may well lead to a variety of profound discoveries.”

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Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.”

“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.”

“I wish there was some personal marker of time, so we didn't have to rely upon days and weeks and months and years. Because each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths. Insightful, p.194”

Profound Invisibility

Book:Invisibility

Source: Invisibility

“There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.”

Profound Life And Death

Book:The High Mountains of Portugal

Source: The High Mountains of Portugal

“Climbing the highest mountains can be daunting, but it can also be a beautiful journey, as the horizons keep expanding, and you discover the silver lining.”

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Book:Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World

Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World

“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.”

“My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to remain at his private remove. I wished to be, not effaced, but invisible - actually a profound position. Perspective, the line of vision, the frame of vision - these set a distance.”

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Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing