I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too
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Vincent Van Gogh
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life...
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Rachel Carson
In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.
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Rolf Edberg
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Unknown
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I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.
Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.
Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
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