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Quote by Joseph Conrad
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the ac

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

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. – Joseph Conrad

Category:
Weather
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Joseph Conrad
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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. – Joseph Conrad

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Courage
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Joseph Conrad
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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

Category:
Despair
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Water
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike

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Water

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. – Arthur C. Clarke

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Water

The sea hath no king but God alone. – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship

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Water

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. – James Russell Lowell

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Water

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