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“If slaughter houses had glass walls, would we even be having this debate?”
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“How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.”
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“The mountains were there and so was I.”
Source : 1952 His reason for becoming a mountain climber. Quoted in Annapurna: Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak (1952, translated by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith).
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“Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.”
Source : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.
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“The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.”
Source : Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.228, University of Chicago Press
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“His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.”
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“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.”
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“... life is too short to do the whole.”
