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61 " But he didnt want to be thought of as a fool. To walk around the town fully dressed and yet appear naked to the world was a shame he couldn't bear. "
― Carsten Jensen , We, the Drowned
62 " We swore that we'd die with our boots on. But then, that's what you do when you drown. "
63 " Perhaps the greatest thing you can achieve is to love without demanding anything in return. "
64 " What was he thinking about? He was old, but he hasn't found peace.Had he realized that a long life didn't automatically bestow wisdom? "
65 " But I could feel resentment inside me, and I knew it would keep growing until it changed into something far more dangerous. "
66 " That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.”― We, the Drowned "
― Carsten Jensen
67 " But that’s how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn’t enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm. "
68 " Life was like one big marching army. Death ran alongside and picked off a soldier here and there, but that didn’t affect the army. Its march continued, and its size didn’t seem to diminish. On the contrary, it grew on into eternity, so that no one was alone in death. Someone else would always follow. That was what counted. Such was the chain of life: unbreakable. But "
69 " Our fathers were often away. But then sometimes, out of the blue, they’d be gone forever. Often away and gone forever: the two phrases marked the difference between having a living father and a dead one. It wasn’t a big difference, but it was big enough to make us cry when no one was looking. One "
70 " The constant bombardment and the randomness with which death scythed us down had exhausted us... "
71 " Beyond the reef's white surf the water was a deep blue, as if in shadow, but in here it was emerald so dazzling you'd think the sand below contained a source of energy as strong as the sun. "
72 " The whole starry sky seemed to be moving in the same direction he was, like a shimmering flock of birds migrating south through the night. "
73 " He could see the Milky Way running parallel with the street, a celestial track of shining pebbles forging through the wasteland of the night. "
74 " Como marinheiros, todos temíamos o afogamento, mas nenhum de nós alguma vez borrara as calças quando uma tempestade arrancara o mastro e o cordame ou uma onda esmagara a amurada e limpara o convés. Era essa a diferença: o mar respeitava a nossa masculinidade. Os canhões não. "
75 " Your roots aren’t to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It’s he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is. "
76 " The schnapps had worked its blessed magic. Drunk now, we surrendered to a blankness born of terror. We sailed on a black sea and we had only one goal: not to look down and drown in it. "
77 " Bewildered, the Kanaks kneeled around their captain, as if awaiting his orders. Could they not see that Jack Lewis lay dying right in front of them?For a moment I wondered if they considered him immortal because his actions were guided by the same unpredictable cruelty shown by their own gods. He'd sliced an ear off one of them, and I'd never heard him address them in anything other then a tone of command. He'd used them as pawns in a game that brought them no profit yet might have cost them their lives, and he'd sacrificed them without explanation. So why not consider him as a god? After all, this was how gods behaved, wasn't it? With an inscrutability that was indistinguishable from arbitrariness? Believers might offer prayers and even sacrifices, but none ever found a method of worship that ensured their prayers were answered. "
78 " time they began that lonely journey into "
79 " Não, capitão Madsen, não nos arrependemos de ter tido uma criança só porque a perdemos. Ter uma criança não é um negócio que se faz com a vida. Como eu disse, uma criança é um dom. E o que fica depois de uma criança desaparecer é a recordação dos anos que pôde viver. Não a sua morte. "
80 " Mas quando se viveu demasiado e, ainda assim, não se pode morrer, pode ter de se inventar razões para continuar. Não tem utilidade? Bem, pode ser esse o caso, mas apenas para si. Há sempre alguém que precisa de si. É apenas uma questão de descobrir quem é. "