„How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?“

— Bob Dylan

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„Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?“
— Bob Dylan
„Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„20 million other white rappers emerge, but no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me!“
— Eminem
„I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is that? It is that man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.“
— Thomas De Quincey
„Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„This quiet roof, where dove-sails saunter by,Between the pines, the tombs, throbs visibly.Impartial noon patterns the sea in flame —That sea forever starting and re-starting.When thought has had its hour, oh how rewardingAre the long vistas of celestial calm!“
— Paul Valéry
„We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.“
— H.P. Lovecraft