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“To the desert go prophets and hermits; through desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.”
― Paul Shepard, Man in the Landscape a Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature

“Reason is the slave of passion.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Nationalism: a state of mind in which you do not love your own country as much as you hate somebody else’s .”
― Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, Diary of a Man in Despair

“The stars burned with a lidless fixity and they drew nearer in the night until toward dawn he was stumbling among the whinstones of the uttermost ridge to heaven, a barren range of rock so enfolded in that gaudy house that stars lay awash at his feet and migratory spalls of burning matter crossed constantly about him on their chartless reckonings.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West