There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Lord Jim by 
Joseph Conrad
"It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune--the ally of  patient Time--that holds an even and scrupulous balance."
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Lord Jim by 
Joseph Conrad
"There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery."
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Lord Jim by 
Joseph Conrad
"And a word carries far--very far--deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
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Lord Jim by 
Joseph Conrad
"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory."
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Lord Jim by 
Joseph Conrad
"You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
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Lord Jim by 
Joseph Conrad