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Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies..

Jon Krakauer

As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane — as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout — there may be no more potent force than religion.

Jon Krakauer

Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.

Jon Krakauer

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

Jon Krakauer

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

Jon Krakauer