"While I am alive, I intend to live."

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Source : Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

Everett Ruess

#Alive Quotes #I Am Alive Quotes

“Boswell is the first of biographers.”
“He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”
“At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a piÃ¨ce truffÃ©e? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.”
“If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.”

Source : Men's Health Interview, May 2007.
“To be able to say how much love, is love but little.”
“Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.”
“All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!”
“What kind of Christian are you? Did you ever lose a job, or lose a night's sleep, or lose a friend for God? If your Christianity never costs you a dollar, never cost you a friend, never cost any tears or broken heart, then can you really say that you love the Lord very much? To be a really good Christian is going to cost you.”

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