- Pirsig, Robert M., Biography, Description and travel, Fathers and sons
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better.
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Contemplative, earnest, grave and character-led.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Robert M. Pirsig
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 421
- Publisher
- Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt, Harper Perennial, Black Swan
- Editions
- 78
- Language
- srp, German, English, dan
- ISBN
- 9780552993784
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“I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning.”
Robert Maynard Pirsig (Minneapolis, Minesota; September 6, 1928-South Berwick, Maine; April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher, and the author of the philosophical novels *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values* (1974) and *Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991)* **Source**: Wikipedia.
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