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“Being an irreligious puritan and a rational mystic, I think it's irresponsible to let a belief think for you or a chemical dream for you.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea

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“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: exploration

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“The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life... And someone who realizes that it can't possibly be enough.”
― Kevin J. Anderson, Clockwork Angels

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“He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else knew about it was beside the purpose.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: despair, heroism, hope, inspirational

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“Those mornings, the beach was my synagogue and the waves and gulls were audience to my prayers. I stood on the beach and felt wind-blown sprays of ocean on my face, and I prayed. And sometimes the words seemed more appropriate to this beach than to the synagogue on my street.”
― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

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