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  1. James Baldwin _ Across Islands and Oceans

    Solitude is the home of the strong; silence, their prayer. -
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  2. James Baldwin _ Across Islands and Oceans

    Ashore, the palms gently bowed before the wind, mixing the rustling of fronds with the murmur of surf in a captivating voice of mid-ocean solitude. With fully restored mind and body, I sailed away the next morning on a light wind, headed for a distant island of a million people.
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  3. James Baldwin _ Across Islands and Oceans

    The sea, especially in its moments of fury, demands first your attention, then your endurance, and finally your patience and acceptance. If you lack this capacity, the sea will soon find you out and make it known to you that the shore is where you should make your home. Each
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  4. James Baldwin _ Across Islands and Oceans

    At night I studied the stars, memorizing the sky charts by penlight and then locating them in the real world planetarium reeling overhead. Where one man sees emptiness, another man sees his world bursting with fullness. No
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  5. James Baldwin _ Across Islands and Oceans

    As all sailors ultimately learn, it is easier to prepare a boat for sea than to clear the decks of your life for a voyage into unknown waters.
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  6. James Baldwin _ Across Islands and Oceans

    You might even wait and do your cruising as a retired person clutching a fistful of platinum credit cards on a finely fitted boat filled with expensive gadgets needed to maintain your increased demands for comfort and security. But by that time you are somewhat lacking in the robust health and enthusiasm to fully engage in your long-postponed adventure. If I chose to sail as a young adventurer, poorly equipped in the material sense, I make no apologies. I was well-fitted out in health and spirit.
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  7. James Baldwin _ Across Islands and Oceans

    You can always drive to your destination, but a true journey is made on foot.
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  8. James Baldwin _ Across Islands and Oceans

    I existed somewhere between yesterday's memories and tomorrow's expectations. The time allotted by the gods to a sedentary man with a sedentary mind can be too much; and yet, for a seeker, it is never enough.
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  9. James Baldwin _ Across Islands and Oceans

    You can talk about doing a thing until everyone finally talks you out of it or you can actually do the thing.
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  10. James Baldwin _ Across Islands and Oceans

    It's a strange thing to dream of faraway places, only to find when I reach them, I am dreaming of home. The affliction of the dreamer, I suppose.
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  11. James Baldwin _ Across Islands and Oceans

    They went on working for the promise of a pension and their "health benefits," which was ironic in that almost any other job would benefit their health better than any doctor's pills."
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  12. James Baldwin _ Across Islands and Oceans

    To know a thing you must see it first, and to see you must look with an open mind."
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