You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all. (Bernard Moitessier)

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

Bernard Moitessier

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