„Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but—“

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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„And the sand all alive, all alive, as the hatched sea-turtles made their dash for the sea, while the birds hovered and swooped to attack and hovered and—swooped to attack! They were diving down on the hatched sea-turtles, turning them over to expose their soft undersides, tearing the undersides open and rending and eating their flesh.“
— Tennessee Williams
„2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war.“
— Woodrow Wilson
„This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.“
— Haruki Murakami
„The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity.Something very like fright had come over all the explorers before anything more definite than rock and ooze and weed was seen.“
— H.P. Lovecraft
„But you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.“
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
„The sun was shining on the sea,Shining with all his might:He did his very best to makeThe billows smooth and bright--And this was odd, because it wasThe middle of the night.“
— Lewis Carroll