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I think your book is right. The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Who are you to know what can be done?

I’ve got no destination, no place to call my own.

So meshed in nerves and hesitation, it could not be a thing to be afraid of; yet it was a real beast, and this book its mangy skin, dried, stuffed and set up squarely for men to stare at.

T.E Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom + David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia

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I pray that I may never see the desert again. Hear me, God. You will come. There is only the desert for you.

Who are you to know what can be done?

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“Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get ‘fun’ in the desert. Bedouins and gods. And you’re neither. Take it from me, for ordinary men it’s a burning, fiery furnace." 

"No, Dryden, it’s going to be fun." 

       ~”…that perhaps , just perhaps I was only a fable, a feeling, a fiction, a fantasy…”~

All men dream: but not equally.  Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.  This I did.

Fortune had added physical perfection and unusual grace, but these qualities were only the just expression of his powers.  They made obvious the pluck which never yielded, which would have let him be cut to pieces, holding on.  His pride broke out in his war-cry, “I am of the Harith”…