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"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway."
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"The bottom of the sea is cruel."
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"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."
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"I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks."
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"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
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"Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over."
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"Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm."
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"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway."
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"The sea complains upon a thousand shores."
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"Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants."
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"Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually."
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"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
Time
"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."
Friendship
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
Man
"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"
Heart
"For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
Love
"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions."
Friendship
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
History
"The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."
Power
"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
Civilization
"If you want to know the age of the Earth-look upon the sea in a storm. But what storm can fully reveal the heart of a man? Between Suez and the China Sea are many nameless men who prefer to live and die unknown. This is the story of one such man. Among the great gallery of rogues and heroes thrown up on the beaches and ports-no man was more respected or more damned than-Lord Jim."
Adventure
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