Quotes,
passages, prose, and phrases
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"One cannot help remembering with pleasure the time when one's best efforts were seconded by a run of luck" (p. x). "One would naturally give faithful service for one's own sake, for the sake of the ship, for the love of the life of one's choice; not for the sake of a reward. There is something distasteful in the notion of a reward" (p. 36). "The road would be long. All roads are long that lead towards one's heart's desire" (p. 44). "In the face of that man, several years, older than myself, I became aware of what I had left already behind me - my youth" (p. 55). "... confound this self-consciousness ..." "I felt on my face the breath of unknown powers that shape our destinies" (p. 62). " ...escaping into the clean breath of the sea" (p. 79). "I don't know what I expected. Perhaps nothing else than that special intensity of existence which is the quintessence of youthful aspirations" (p. 83). "My form of sickness was indifference. The creeping paralysis of a hopeless outlook" (p. 93). "I discovered that life could hold terrible moments" (p. 96). "It was the last ordeal of that episode which had been maturing and tempering my character - though I did not know it" (p. 129). "The truth is that one must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad" (p. 131). "A man should stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience, and all that sort of thing. Why, what else would you have to fight against?" (p. 132). |