A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
JOSEPH CONRADNowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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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.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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