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"For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them in Lebanon, bringing them to Israel, holding them as hostages. It's been going on for decades, has anybody called for an invasion of Israel?"
"Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?"
"Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!"
"When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep."
"Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me."
"I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line."
"They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb"
"Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him."
"If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea."
"With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms."
"I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen."
"The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were."
"I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea."
"They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent."
"But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea."
"Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard."
"The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea."
"The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely."
"The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life."
"The United States believes that every nation should respect international law, including in the South China Sea."
