Everett Ruess Quotes

#1. I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

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#2. 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 for the deepest understanding one must seek those with whom one can be most truly one's self and never be blind to the ineffable drollery of it all.

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#3. I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

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#4. 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.

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#5. But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

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#6. Say that i starved, that i was lost and weary
that i was burned and blinded by the desert sun
footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases,
lonely and wet and cold, but that i kept my dream!

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#7. 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 paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bread by cities ... it is enough that i am surrounded by beauty.

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#8. I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.

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#9. 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 brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds.

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#10. I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.

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#11. I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?

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#12. Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.

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#13. ...while I am alive, I intend to live.

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#14. I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.

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