Death isn’t sad. The sad thing is: most people don’t live at all.
Karl Marlantes – Matterhorn
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Death isn’t sad. The sad thing is: most people don’t live at all.
Karl Marlantes – Matterhorn
You go into the wilderness to find something in yourself that you’ve lost.
Karl Marlantes – Matterhorn
The Marine Corps was the thing outside himself that mattered more than what was inside.
Karl Marlantes – Matterhorn
Memory is the one garden where you can take roses into winter.
Karl Marlantes – Matterhorn
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Every human being is a collection of selves, we pull out one self or another according to the situation.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Nothing is more tiresome than being told what to admire.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
History is the lies of the victors.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
A soul needs a purpose to live…and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill the man who had taken my wife’s.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
One’s own life seemed puny against the background of so much history.
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet