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"On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish."
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"To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder."
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"It is better to burn than to disappear."
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"Raging fires grow from the tiniest spark; it is the same principle at work in life. As long as there's a spark, tend to your fire. Never give up."
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"God doesn't hand you an easy life because you will grow in it. He hands you a dream with hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, battles and challenges because he knows the real you is at the finishing line."
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"The spirit of a man shall sustain him in his sick bed."
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"You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too."
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"Life demands discomfort and pain."
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"Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some."
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"It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak."
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"I will not move an inch, I've become an anvil to endure every act of striking."
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"I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand."
Journey
"A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation."
Observation
"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."
Reading
"As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end."
Adventure
"Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them."
Adaptation
"Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach."
Preparation
"An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems."
Wisdom
"For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure."
Discovery
"A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you."
Journey
"The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence."
Sadness
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