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  1. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.
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  2. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.
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  3. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.
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  4. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty...
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  5. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
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  6. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
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  7. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.
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  8. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
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  9. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
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  10. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.
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  11. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
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  12. Jon Krakauer _ Into the Wild

    So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
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