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1 " Many things were certainly different up here; not only the earth was spiritualized and made cerebral by long nights. There was books in every farmhouse. And it was not uncommon for daughters of farmers to leave in order to pursue their studies and then return. When you saw them haying or milking cows, there was no way of knowing if they hadn't spent years in seminaries and colleges. They were more free and independent, as well as intellectualy more agile, than men upon whom the gravity of mountains and the monotones of the sea seemed to weight more heavily. "
― Ernst Jünger , Visita a Godenholm
2 " These men did not give the impression that they considered the solitude to be a necessary evil of their land. They intimate with it and loved it. "
3 " It was boring like reading a Scandinavian novel. "
4 " He realized the shipwreck had already happened and that he was floating on a raft of ruins. "
5 " One should be guided less by catastrophes than by one's own internal weather conditions. Even when there was no wind, a hidden cliff could spell disaster; and one could quietly while away time in a cabin in the center of a typhoon. "
