History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
JOSEPH CONRADYou know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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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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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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