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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

Joseph Conrad

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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Conscience Kind Man Nature Tragedy Victim
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
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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Bilnd Faith Fear Mystery Soul Struggle
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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Day Easy Fall Quick Sea Wake Up
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Luxury Necessary Protection
It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Mistake Myself Work
Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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Darkness Himself Power
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
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Enemy Friendship Judgement Man
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
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Face Hard Time Inspirational Way
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Achievement Feeling Myself Power See Try Word Writing Yourself
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Himself Man Work
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Action Myself Silence Talk
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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Light Moon Mystery Passionate Soul

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

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