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Amit Kashyap
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have.”
― The Pragmatic Programmer
― The Pragmatic Programmer
“For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do, and that was to fly.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
“At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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Amit’s 2024 Year in Books
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