Mike Mercer
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“Nothing so reminds you like the sea that the enemy of life is not death but loneliness.”
― The Navigator of New York
― The Navigator of New York
“People will continue to doubt you until they witness first hand the results of what you have mastered.”
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“It is only half an hour’–’It is only an afternoon’–’It is only an evening,’ people say to me over and over again; but they don’t know that it is impossible to command one’s self sometimes to any stipulated and set disposal of five minutes–or that the mere consciousness of an engagement will sometime worry a whole day… Who ever is devoted to an art must be content to deliver himself wholly up to it, and to find his recompense in it. I am grieved if you suspect me of not wanting to see you, but I can’t help it; I must go in my way whether or no.”
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“You are, Devlin, too young to understand how rare a thing true love is, how unlikely in this world to happen, and when it does, how unlikely to endure. And once it is lost, how hard to live without.”
― The Navigator of New York
― The Navigator of New York
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