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“The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural...” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
“Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother?” James Joyce, Ulysses
“But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“Ah! sir, live—live in the bosom of the waters! There only is independence! There I recognise no masters! There I am free!” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.” Bram Stoker, Dracula

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