Wretched Invention Quotes by Fridtjof Nansen

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• If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with…
• The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss…
• Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow…
• Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.
• Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which…
• Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
• You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well,…
• War will cease when men refuse to fight.
• The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can…
• Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.
• Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it…
• I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

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