Lionel Terray famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can approach, it also presents great dangers. It is not the goal of ‘grand alpinisme’ to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of crawling grubs.
-- Lionel Terray -
On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude.
-- Lionel Terray
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I've never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.
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When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
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There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
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Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
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We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.
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Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.
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