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1 " Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing. "
― Joseph Conrad , The Secret Sharer and other stories
2 " 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. "
3 " In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly with reflected lights resembled an oval patch of night sky flung down into the hopeless and abysmal night of the wilderness. "
