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“Invite Tranquility
The sea,--
Something to look at
When we are angry.”
― Hiroshige's Tokaido in Prints and Poetry
The sea,--
Something to look at
When we are angry.”
― Hiroshige's Tokaido in Prints and Poetry
“Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
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for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
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“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
“There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
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