That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North, The Wit of Porportuk.
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
Narcissistic personality disorder, or NPD. According to DSM-IV, NPD is distinguished by a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy . . . , in...
«Tornare indietro quando era così vicino alla vetta...», osservò Hall scuotendo la testa il 6 maggio, mentre Kropp superava il Campo Due diretto verso la base della montagna. «Questo giovane Goran sì...
A rapist, by definition, is only interested in gratifying his own desires. A rapist doesn’t care what a woman wants. If he did, he wouldn’t rape. —
A. Alvarez The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
As she studies the pictures, she breaks down from time to time, weeping as only a mother who has outlived a child can weep, betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at tak...
Asked to elaborate, Lisak explained, One of the things that is difficult for most of us, frankly, to understand about a rape, is that there doesn’t have to be a gun to the head, there doesn’t have to...
By and by your attention becomes so intensely focused that you no longer notice the raw knuckles, the cramping thighs, the strain of maintaining nonstop concentration. A trancelike state settles over...
Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.
Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
Every minute you remain at this altitude and above, he cautioned, your minds and bodies are deteriorating. Brain cells were dying. Our blood was growing dangerously thick and sludgelike.
For a person accustomed to the multi ethnic commotion of Los Angeles, Vancouver, New York, or even Denver, walking across the BYU campus can be a jarring experience. One sees no graffiti, not a speck...
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. G. K. CHESTERTON
He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times he knew nobody would be around
He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why...
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison o...
How much of the appeal of mountaineering lies in its simplification of interpersonal relationships, its reduction of friendship to smooth interaction (like war), its substitution of an Other (the moun...
I now walk into the wild.
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