Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRADTo be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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 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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