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Adventure, in reality, is a lot like writing this book - tedious, drawn out and lonely, with small but powerful hints of joy.

“Another admission: I am romantic, I dream-up radically impractical journeys just to try and feel or to intuit something from a past that may well have never existed â€� or not in the way I imagine it. Combined with this I have a tendency towards depressive states. My episodes have never been so bad that I couldn’t get out of bed and face the day, but after my time at the lighthouse and losing the woman whom I thought I loved so much, and drinking to bad effect every night, I felt a shift come on that scared me.”
― The Voyage of the Cormorant
― The Voyage of the Cormorant

“There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
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“L'amour véritable ne se dépense point. Plus tu donnes, plus il te reste.”
― Citadelle
― Citadelle

“The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.”
― The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
― The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

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