Joseph Conrad Quotes About Sailing
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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