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That’s what makes death so hard–unsatisfied curiosity

Beryl Markham

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
BERYL MARKHAM

Book Dog Loneliness
You know then what you had always been told — that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.
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Adding Clock Machine Street Told Tyrants
No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.
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Achieve Dignity Work
When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.
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Coming Desperation Importance Lost
A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.
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Moving Thinking Yesterday
That’s what makes death so hard–unsatisfied curiosity
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Curiosity Hard Unsatisfied
To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless, and infinite. Like night, it intrigues the mind and leads it to futility.
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Darkness Men Night Real
A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.
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Men Riddled Water Years
Success breeds confidence.
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Confidence Inspirational Success
The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in.
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Friends Good Moments
[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves.
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Direction Gun One Ourselves Winning
the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.
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Dispassionate Hands Men Mind
There are many Africas.
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Country Many People
I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains – the drab and dowdy digger in the earth.
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Eye Fighting Home Plains
I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in the firelight and see them all.
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Friend Good Responsibility Wall
The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.
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Cards Deck Loneliness Natural

That’s what makes death so hard–unsatisfied curiosity

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