“The Transitoriness of LifeTo what may man's life be compared?To a boat which rowed away, Far in the sea, and left no track, In the morning of the day. Shami Mansai”

“Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”

“In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.”

“To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessness and vague desire--It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.”

“The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.”

“My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.”