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> [“I suppose a great and soul filling love is perhaps the greatest experience a man may have, but it is such a rarity as to be almost negligible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-suppose-a-great-and-soul-filling-love-is-perhaps-the-greatest/)

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## More by Everett Ruess

> [I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-don-t-think-i-could-ever-settle-down-i-have-known-too-much-of-the/)

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> [I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-must-pack-my-short-lifer-full-of-interesting-events-and-creative/)

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> [I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-thought-that-there-were-two-rules-in-life-never-count-the-cost-and/)

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> [I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-have-seen-almost-more-beauty-than-i-can-bear/)

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> [I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-have-not-tired-of-the-wilderness-rather-i-enjoy-its-beauty-and-the/)

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> [I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-have-been-in-many-beautiful-places-and-did-not-wish-to-taste-but-to/)

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> [“I like to be perfectly open and sincere, and yet it is impossible to be sincere to all of one's self at once, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-like-to-be-perfectly-open-and-sincere-and-yet-it-is-impossible-to/)

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> [Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/happiness-lies-in-a-large-measure-of-self-forgetfulness-either-in/)

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> [“I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-prefer-the-saddle-to-the-streetcar-and-star-sprinkled-sky-to-a-roof/)

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> [Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, sick with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/say-that-i-starved-that-i-was-lost-and-weary-that-i-was-burned-and/)

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> [I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-prefer-the-saddle-to-the-streetcar-and-star-sprinkled-sky-to-a-roof-2/)

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> [Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness: Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/always-i-shall-be-one-who-loves-the-wilderness-swaggers-and-softly/)

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> [“I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-have-always-been-unsatisfied-with-life-as-most-people-live-it/)

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> [I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-m-drunk-on-the-fiery-elixer-of-beauty/)

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> [“I suppose a great and soul filling love is perhaps the greatest experience a man may have, but it is such a rarity as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everett-ruess/i-suppose-a-great-and-soul-filling-love-is-perhaps-the-greatest/)

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