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he had the appearance of someone who would be completely at ease in the human world, but he often entered it like a scuba diver with forty-five minutes of air and a weight belt to keep himself down.
Sebastian Junger • In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
In Oslo you can walk all day and still your shoes can remain white.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
But even though I didn’t understand a word of what Kjartan said, and nothing of what he wrote, nor anything of the poems he praised with such passion, I did understand intuitively that he was right, that there was such a thing as a supreme philosophy and a supreme poetry, and that even if you didn’t understand it, were unable to partake in it, you
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I remember that in school, they strived for objectiveness. Tasks had a beginning and an end, tests got graded, and behaviour had a norm. To walk is about something else. You can reach your goal, only to continue walking the next day.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
you are entirely by yourself, for miles and hours at a time.
Koerner Hal • Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning: Training for an Ultramarathon, from 50K to 100 Miles and Beyond
"And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."
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3-2-1: The secret to creativity, how our challenges shape us, and the value of bad workouts
Once out in the fjord I straightened up, wet with fever and fatigue, looked in toward the shore and said goodbye for now to the city, to Kristiania, where the windows shone so brightly in every home.
Knut Hamsun • Hunger (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Back at home, returned to civilization, daily life takes over with surprising speed. Pleasures become more complicated, often less intense and more to be expected. Over the course of a few days, grand sensations – such as feeling full or warm, sleeping well, or seeing another human being – are taken for granted.