"The wind shows us how close to the edge we are."
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image."
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"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
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