For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.

Philippe Petit
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  1. It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.

  2. To fight adversity, to improvise, to solve problems, and to save the coup, I had gathered all my senses into unusual configurations, which made me grow wild and enhanced my perceptions.

  3. Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.

  4. It cannot be done all at once. To overpower vertigo - the keeper of the abyss- one must tame it, cautiously.

  5. When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

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