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"Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."

"Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out."

"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

"I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come."
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"Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names."

"Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise."

"The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion."

"To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things."
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