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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

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To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

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Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.

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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

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Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

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I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

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