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The Sea, the Sea Quotes
"It affords me a curious pleasure to stand upon this bridge and watch the violent forces which the churning waves, advancing or retreating, generate within the confined space of the rocky hole." Prehistory, p. 5.
"I am very conscious of the house existing quietly round about me. Parts of it I have colonized, other parts remain obstinately alien and dim." Prehistory, p. 17.
"The [glass] is ... somewhat spotted but remarkably luminous and silvery, so that the mirror seems like a source of light." Pre-history, p. 32.
"It has only just now occurred to me that really I could write all sorts of fantastic nonsense about my life in these memoirs and everybody would believe it!" Prehistory, p. 76.
"Can a woman's ghost, after so many years, open the doors of the heart?" Prehistory, p 89.
"...everything was in ruins about me, every old assumption was gone, every terrible possibility...
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