"I must pack my short lifer full of……" — Everett Ruess
"I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return."
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Everett Ruess
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14 Quotes by Everett Ruess
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I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.
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I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and…
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I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how…
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I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you…
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I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.
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I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there…
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But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.
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I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and…
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I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly…
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Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others.…
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Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.
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While I am alive, I intend to live.
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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