# Quote — Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands

> A keen wind from the west struck our faces, and as swiftly as it had come the fog rolled away from us, in one mighty mass, stripping clean and pure the starry dome of heaven....

- Author: [Erskine Childers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erskine-childers.md)
- Book: [The Riddle of the Sands](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erskine-childers/the-riddle-of-the-sands.md)
- Page: 217
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/erskine-childers/the-riddle-of-the-sands/a-keen-wind

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> Drunk with triumph, I cuddled in my rocking cradle and ransacked every unvisited chamber of the memory....to see the residue take life and meaning in the light of the great revelation.

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> It was devotion to the sea, wedded to a fire of pent-up patriotism struggling incessantly for an outlet in strenuous physical expression; a humanity, born of acute sensitiveness to his own limitations, only adding fuel to the flame.

p. 91 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erskine-childers/the-riddle-of-the-sands/it-was-devotion.md)