I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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