“The sea — this truth must be confessed — has no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness — has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.”

— Joseph Conrad , book The Mirror of the Sea

Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 36

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