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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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"Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious."
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"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."
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"I want to go to sea."
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"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
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"The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade."
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"I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more."
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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."
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"I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins."
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"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."
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"Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually."
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"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness."
Mortality
"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."
People
"Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions."
Innovation
"Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so enigmatic, so burdensome, so fascinating, so dangerous--so full of hope. They exist! And this is the only fundamental truth of fiction."
Literature
"The sea - the 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."
Nature
"And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank."
Philosophy
"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
"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
"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions."
Friendship
"Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last--only at the very last. But the wilderness found him out early, and had taken vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude--and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core."
Philosophy
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