"For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread."

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Source : Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.400, Open Road Media

Maurice Herzog

#Life And Death Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Fields Quotes

“I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.”
“If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value”
“When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane.”
“No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably in the last half hour!”
“It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.”
“Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes.”

Source : William Withering, Torbern Bergman (1822). “The miscellaneous tracts of the late William Withering: to which is prefixed a memoir of his life, character, and writings”, p.15
“I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.”
“You can never be perfect. But you can always do a million good things, for yourself and for others. Start and end your day with good things and whatever challenges you face in between only make you stronger.”

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