Everett Ruess Quotes

• Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥

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  Amor, Felicidad, Feliz

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• 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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  Song, Mountain Peaks, Wind

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• I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the 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 bred by cities.

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  Stars, Tired, Sky

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• 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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  People, Acting, And Love

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• 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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  Two, Cost, Can Do

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• I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all, the lone trail is bestI'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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  Thinking, Fascination, Wilderness

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• Pero entonces, siempre estoy agobiado. Lo necesito para mantener la vida.

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  Overwhelmed, Being Overwhelmed

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• Di que me moría de hambre; que estaba perdido y cansado;
  Que me quemó y cegó el sol del desierto;
  Dolorido, sediento, enfermo de extrañas enfermedades;
  Solo, mojado y con frío, ¡pero mantuve mi sueño!

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  Dream, Lonely, Sick

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• 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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  Philosophy, Short Life, Interesting

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.

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  Bears, I Can

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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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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  Goes On, Lasts, Return

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• 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 bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty

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  Stars, Mean, Intelligent

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• Mientras viva, pienso vivir.

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  Alive, I Am Alive

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• He estado en muchos lugares hermosos, y no deseaba saborear, sino beber profundamente.

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  Beautiful, Wish, Taste

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• I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.

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  Drunk, Fiery

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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 is.

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  Spots, Wander, Dies

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.

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  Tired, Vagrants, Wilderness

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• Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.

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  Desea

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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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 I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.

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  Thinking, Depth, Too Much

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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