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Quote by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“I piss on you all from a considerable height.”

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine was a French novelist known for his unique literary style and profound criticism of modern society. His works often explore the absurdity and loneliness of human existence through satire and humor. more

“Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.”

Source: The decameron, or, Ten days' entertainment, of Boccaccio:

“There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.”

People Pleasure Dangerous Equal Climbs Climbing Confined Mountain Climbing Climbing Mountain Rock Climbing Alps

Book:A Tramp Abroad

Source: A Tramp Abroad

“No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.”

Thinking Too Much Peaceful Climbing Peaceful Life

Author:Seneca the Younger

“There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.”

Mountain All Things Climbing Towers Lofty Egotistical Mountain Top

Author:Herman Melville

“One who can move mountains start with the little stones.”

Littles Moving Mountain Stones Climbing Move Mountains

Author:Confucius

“The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.”

Beautiful Silence Quiet Mountain Bird Climbing

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.”

Mountain Climbing Summit

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

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