“It is symptomatic of the Tyrol that the celebrated Copper Age human ‘Ötzi’ should have had his mummified corpse dug out of the ice there – both because of Ötzi’s air of rather priggish, rugged self-reliance (his furs, his bag of healing herbs) and because he had an arrow stuck in his back. ==========”
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“By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.”
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“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”
― Monkey: A Journey to the West
― Monkey: A Journey to the West
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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