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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather,

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. – Joseph Conrad

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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of ones enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with ones friends. – Joseph Conrad

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Truth
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. – Joseph Conrad

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Water
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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. – Joseph Conrad

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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. – Christina Rossetti

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One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. – Albert Einstein

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Only those in tune with nature seem to pick up on the energy in wind. All sorts of things get swept off in the breeze — ghosts, pieces of soul, voices unsung, thoughts repressed, love uncherished, and a thousands galore of spiritual ether. – Terri Guillemets, “Free but homesick,” 2005

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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. – Langston Hughes

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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether its the writer or the spy. – John le Carre

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