Everything had changed suddenly - the tone, the moral climate; you didn´t know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly you were on your own. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute - life or truth or beauty - of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that had been discarded. You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good.
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Passage highlighted in one of the books found with Chris McCandless remains.
"Need for a Purpose" had been written in McCandless's hand in the margin above the passage.
Há qualquer coisa nesta história real (filme "Into the wild")que me fascina e intriga ao mesmo tempo.. e dou comigo a absorver e a querer saber mais detalhes relatados pela familia e pessoas que se cruzaram com ele. Acho fascinate o seu estado de consciência, tendo-se recusado a viver anestesiado pelo consumismo ou sucesso aparente.
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