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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.

Joseph Conrad

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Enjoyment Reality Talk
We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Be Yourself One Liner Ourselves
Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Deep Dreams Fear Life One Liner
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Accident Strength Weakness Yourself
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Accomplishment Achievement Blessing Greatness Rule Warm World
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Adventure Romance Spirit Task
Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Account Home Journey
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Deal Difficult Man Terrible Woman
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Alone Belief Evil Man Necessary Quite Source Wickedness
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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Appearance Different Earth Yourself
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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Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
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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Books Friendship Leaving Old Pocket Solid
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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Creation Cruelty Ethics Mad Universe View
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Friendship Human Man Nature Support

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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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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