All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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