"In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,"

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Source : Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.9, Open Road Media

Maurice Herzog

#Men Quotes #Touching Quotes #World Quotes

“A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
“Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
“If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.”
“I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.”
“Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.”
“In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.”

Source : "Actor Laura Vandervoort: Being inspired to challenge yourself and female empowerment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress”
“A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.”

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