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“Fawcett, who had always found refuge in the natural world, no longer recognized the wilderness of bombed-out villages, denuded trees, craters, and sunbaked skeletons. As Lyne wrote in his diary, “Dante would never have condemned lost souls to wander in so terrible a purgatory.”
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
“I am getting older and am, I daresay, impatient of lost years and months,” Fawcett complained to Keltie in early 1918. Later”
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“While most of my articles seem unrelated, they typically have one common thread: obsession. They are about ordinary people driven to do extraordinary things—things that most of us would never dare—who get some germ of an idea in their heads that metastasizes until it consumes them.”
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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