“Amid snow,” you told me, “a man loses his instinct of self-preservation. After two or three days of tramping, all you think about is sleep. I would long for it; but then I would say to myself, ‘If my wife still believes I am alive, she must believe that I am on my feet. The boys all think I am on my feet. They have faith in me. And I am a skunk if I don’t go on.’”
“...What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars, 35, 38.
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