"Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part."

Broch, Hermann · Sea · 2 fans >>
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"As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!"

Camus, Albert · Sea · 0 fans >>
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"The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness -- has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."

Conrad, Joseph · Sea · 2 fans >>
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"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

Conrad, Joseph · Sea · 2 fans >>
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"To me, the sea is like a person -- like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there."

Ederle, Gertrude · Sea · 5 fans >>
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"The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo · Sea · 3 fans >>
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"The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray."

Gogh, Vincent Van · Sea · 5 fans >>
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"I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began."

Hazlitt, William · Sea · 0 fans >>
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

Johnson, Samuel · Sea · 1 fans >>
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"Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!"

Keats, John · Sea · 0 fans >>
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