Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
JOSEPH CONRADIt 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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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 like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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