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Quote by Annie Dillard
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper;

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. – Annie Dillard

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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. – Annie Dillard

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Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me? – Annie Dillard

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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. – Annie Dillard

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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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The great sea makes one a great sceptic. – Richard Jefferies

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So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones. – Quran

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Long before we saw the sea, its spray was on our lips, and showered salt rain upon us. – Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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