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“Our larger body is eternity. Eventually, we return to the source in its undifferentiated form, in its absolute form, which is both form and formlessness, but we exist in that sea all the time.”

Body Form Sea Source Return Eternity Absolutes Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.”

Home Chance Sea Kissing Rivers Absolutes Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Catching Derision Kiss Of Death

Author:Tony Bishop

“False casting for practice is the best way to achieve the feel of the line in the air, but in actual fishing, false casts should be limited in number to absolute necessity. In the first place, the more false casts you make, the greater are the chances for the fish to see your arm waving, or the line in the air. And the greater are your chances to make a mistake in the cast and lose your timing. Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.”

Source: Trout Fishing

“And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.”

Problem Purpose Choices Moral Sea Land Security Absolutes Appeals Presenting Unrest Singleness

Book:Twixt Land and Sea

Source: Twixt Land and Sea

“It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons. What is clear to me, therefore, is that while the tragedy of war grinds on, the contemporary aesthetics of the tragedy seem not only confused but, in some way, suspicious.”

Way War Seems Clear Sea Tragedy Absolutes Surprise Contemporary Confused Concentration Camps Suspicious Aesthetics Grind Skeletons Concentration Camp

Author:Paul Virilio

“If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.”

Ifs Needs Hands Together Certain Dark Sea Lucky Summer Seasons Absolutes Seven Eight Swim Exhaustion Lucky You Hands Together

Book:Sleeping in Flame

Source: Sleeping in Flame

“Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch.Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.”

Ifs Men Humans Looks Persons Happens Humanity Father Individual Born Roles Sea Effects Husband Authority Absolutes Notes Poison Solitary Captains Oppressed Persona Immune Monarchs Absorption

Author:Patrick O'Brian

“If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea. But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing, and tried to think nothing.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Heart Long Said Sometimes Matter Happens Eye Half Sea Honest My Heart Involved Absolutes Strive Committed Ships Fancy Suspects Dictator Suspicion Strife Voyages Cover Ups

Book:Moby-Dick

Source: Moby-Dick

“IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.”

Knows Made Stories Happens Eye Bits Know How Sea Crazy Ignorance Quiet Ocean Rivers Absolutes Remains Bottom Boat Desert Lifts Explanation Sand Rapids Covering Shattered Alligators

Author:Rumi

“The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at its source, it gradually gathers the strength of the other rivers in encounters. And, after a certain point, its power is absolute.”

Certain Forget Sea Source Prove Yoga Rivers Absolutes Objectives Encounters Never Forget Fragile Routes Forget It

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.”

Sometimes Taken Sea Military Absolutes Granted Taken For Granted

Author:Chester W. Nimitz

“Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.”

Knows Men Self Darkness Sea Loneliness Absolutes Islands Isolation

Author:Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas