You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip … - Joseph Conrad - Quotesmemo.com

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I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn't see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I'd think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.

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Joseph Conrad

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

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