"Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion."

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Source : Robert Macfarlane (2004). “Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit”, Vintage Books

Robert Macfarlane

#Mountain Quotes #Half Quotes #Oblivion Quotes

“Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it”
“Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.”

Source : Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.48, Canongate Books
“It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.”
“If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it--a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all--you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.”
“Patience is moral elasticity.”
“The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes.”
“Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.”
“I choose work with the people I like to work with.”

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