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Sea

Our souls get sick for, our bodies sick from, the sea.
On a ship, our thoughts are more spacious, our legs more cramped.
The ugly feet of a beautiful woman are made desirable by the body they are attached to.
War and water are two chaoses combined.

open quote Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism... inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own. close quote

-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism