"For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end."
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"There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience."
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"Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea."
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"The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the purpose of it is to activate the parts of the mind that are not activated by everyday activity ... 'Magic' becomes the development of techniques that allow communication with hidden portions of the self, and with hidden portions of all other islands in this 'psychic sea.'"
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"Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea."
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"We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature."
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"Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!"
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"History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world."
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"My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life."
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"But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me."
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"So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!"
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"When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea."
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"He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it."
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"Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?"
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"Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive."
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"Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment."
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"Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct."
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"A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism."
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"What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?"
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"The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike."
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