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“Away from the sea I languish, I suffocate, I die! Ah! I believe that the waves roll their foam in my veins, that in my hair the tempest blows. My raptures and my cries are the echo of the ocean, my...”
“The thing about the ocean is that the surface wont always tell you what is going on underneath.”
“Well the sky always seemed like another ocean to me, you know? Like we live between two incredible oceans, and we'll never get to the bottom of either of them.”
“Under the tossing ocean the voice of the waters was in my earsa low, sweet voice, intimate, mysterious. Through singing foam and broad, green, glassy depths, by whispering sandy channels atrail wit...”
“Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean.”
“The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.”
“His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.”
“The ocean turns cold, dark, pressing around me, but the deeper I go the more the iron inside of me twists and pulls and I know that Im tethered to the boat, that even now the men pull the rope tigh...”
“I was sixteen, still my mothers prisoner, the night I became the whale.”
“It was like watching a man smile as he surrendered himself to drown in deep water.”
“Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland peoplewhat a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they a...”
“Then all was quiet, except for that murmurous half telling, half withholding of tremendous secrets that the sea would keep up all night. Each little wave seemed to say, Ill tell you- and then pull ...”
“Can you imagine a waveless ocean while there is a big storm outside? And that calm ocean is the ocean of wisdom!”
“Some say the ocean roars,I hear it ever weeping.Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before.Weep, O sea, for the open graves that fill your shore.”
“The sea is a body in a thousand ways that don't add up, because adding is too stable a transaction for that flux, but the waves come in in a roar and then ebb, almost silent but for the fain suck o...”
“The sea reminds me of my finiteness, limitations, minuteness and powerlessness, because the sea is none of these.”
“Its a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matte...”
“It is as if we find ourselves on a ship in the middle of the ocean, with the captain making the point that we are free to leave.”
“Wait, the most positive and infinite word ever made. It can be for a moment,for a min,for an hour,for days, for years, for eternity ...and sometimes for another life .. But it never fails and never...”
“And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping min...”
