1. "A mountain walked or stumbled."
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H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
2. "Look! A mountain there I don’t climb a mountain Mountain climbs me Mountain is myself I climb on myself."
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Nanao Sakaki, Break the Mirror
3. "One's nature is like a mountain"
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Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
4. "Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."
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Frank Herbert, Dune
5. "Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"
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Stanisław Lem, Solaris
6. "A mountain is not a mountain if there is nothing below."
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Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
7. "First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is."
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Stephen King, 11/22/63
8. "First there is a mountain, Then there is no mountain, Then there is. —Zen proverb"
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Geoffrey A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
9. "She was a girl with a mountain to climb."
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Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
10. "A mountain had died, its skeleton had been scattered over the ground. Time had aged the mountain; time had killed the mountain-and here lay the mountain's bones."
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Vasily Grossman, An Armenian Sketchbook