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Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
– Erin Morgenstern

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  4. Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints. – Henry James
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  8. When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  9. The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about. – Michael Meade
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  22. Where there is any kind of doer-ship, there is karmic bondage, and where there is knower-ship and inner understanding, there is Moksha [Liberation]. – Dada Bhagwan
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  24. The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can’t do anything about the tides. – Matthew Norman
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  27. But you built me dreams instead… – Erin Morgenstern
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  33. I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can. – Erin Morgenstern
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  37. Know that blank pages feel the urge of the ink as much as tears paint a different pain, changes – Goitsemang Sandra Mvula
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  39. The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it. – Kelseyleigh Reber
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