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| “Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.” | “Fire and Ice” | Robert Frost | 80%
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| “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:” | “If —” | Rudyard Kipling | 70%
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| “If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.” | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 50%
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| “There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear. Sitting in Nedicks the women rally before they march discussing the problematic girls they hire to make them free. An almost white counterman passes a waiting brother to serve them first and the ladies neither notice nor reject the slighter pleasures of their slavery. But I who am bound by my mirror as well as my bed see causes in colour as well as sex and sit here wondering which me will survive all these liberations.” | “Who Said It Was Simple” | Audre Lord | 40%
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| “I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race — that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.” | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak | 40%
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| “It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.” | Wild | Cheryl Strayed | 30%
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| “Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.” | All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy | 30%
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| “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” | The Dharma Bums | Jack Kerouac | 30%
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| “He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life.” | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 30%
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| “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” | The Ersatz Elevator | Daniel Handler | 20%
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