It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live as we dream – alone.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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