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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from...

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and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...

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hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the...

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Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at ...

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Yukio MishimaThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

This sometimes happened: from time to time, Dantès, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an i...

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Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, li...

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She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons boun...

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The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of P...

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For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...

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There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has g...

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I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's becaus...

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To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of ...

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My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief...

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You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and shit! They don...

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Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been si...

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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ...

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She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job li...

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I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,...

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Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

An alternative — and better — definition of reality can be found by naming some of its components: a...

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Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natu...

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