Quote #13

The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.

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  1. Running all over the sea trying to get behind the weather.
  2. Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through.
  3. She strode like a grenadier, was strong and upright like an obelisk, had a beautiful face, a candid brow, pure eyes, and not a thought of h…
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  5. The more I write the less substance do I see in my work, ... It is tolerably awful. And I face it, I face it but the fright is growing on m…
  6. One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes…
  7. What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
  8. As to honour - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

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