Joseph Conrad Quotes About Seamen
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The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.
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I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.
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For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.
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One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.
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