Quotes with underfoot

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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
    Prodigal Summer
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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