East of Eden
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You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
“The Drake Passage is the only place on earth where the wind can circulate around the entire globe without ever touching land, making it one of the most dangerous places on the planet for a sailing vessel.”
― Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
― Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
“You don't feel any different as you get older. Only, you can't do so much.”
― A Town Like Alice
― A Town Like Alice
“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“It was solemn, and a little ridiculous too, as they always are, those struggles of an individual trying to save from the fire his idea of what his moral identity should be,”
― Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad
― Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad
“I thought of Stalin, whose body had reportedly joined Lenin’s the year before, in a similar shrine on Red Square. These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.”
― The Historian
― The Historian
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