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The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

Beryl Markham

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
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Paper Silence Steel
Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin’s lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it.
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Hand Human Being Lottery Winning Other
Even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.
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Experience Meaning Nothing Step
Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.
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Clouds Distance Years
Success feeds confidence.
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Confidence Feeds Success
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
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Knowledge Lifetime People
No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.
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Achieve Dignity Work
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things – the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold – were false to you.
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Loneliness Tools Vanity
[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves.
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Direction Gun One Ourselves Winning
Conformation … but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere – in men, in horses, and in women.
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Heart Horse Men
The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.
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Cards Deck Loneliness Natural
A lovely horse is always an experience…. It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
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Cowboy Emotional Horse
A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.
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Ideas Journey Want
I learned to watch, to put my trust in other hands than mine. And I learned to wander. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know — that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.
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Dreaming Horizon Learn Mine Wander
Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.
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Again Drugs Memories
The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
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Dark Landmarks Light Rocks

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

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