Sylvain Tesson Quotes

#1. To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

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#2. I admire those believers who speak of such things with the same aplomb as if the'd just split a beer with God in the cabin next door.

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#3. Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

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#4. It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible ...

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#5. The cabin will return to the soil when abandoned by its owner, yet in its simplicity it offers perfect protection against the seasonal cold without disfiguring the sheltering forest. With the yurt and the igloo, it figures among the handsomest human responses to environmental adversity.

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#6. Those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.

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#7. To love is not to celebrate one's own reflection in the face of one's double, but to recognize the value of what one can never know.

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#8. I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book

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#9. Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

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#10. The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings of ancient Rome.

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