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"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
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"Just a child is free to wander in one's father's garden, discovering little or big things; it is left to the seeker to grow unto the Nature of the Absolute."
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"There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the valleys; sat on the banks of streams.....when, from the mountain-top, she beheld, far off, across the Sea of Marmara the plains of Greece, and made out (her eyes were admirable) the Acropolis with a white streak or two which must, she thought, be the Parthenon, her soul expanded with her eyeballs, and she prayed she might share the majesty of the hills, know the serenity of the plains, etc. etc., as all such believers do."
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"The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere."
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"The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail."
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"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time."
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"I'll be off exploring, searching for those out-of-bounds places where dreams exist."
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"Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession."
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"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"
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"Adults follow paths. Children explore."
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"Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship."
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"Whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off-then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."
Mental Health
"The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up-flaked up, with rose-water snow."
Observation
"Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order."
Society
"Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form."
Psychology
"One captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab."
Heroism
"Genius is full of trash."
Creativity
"He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea."
Spiritual
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
Fear
"How I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast."
Memory
"Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease."
Ambition
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