Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
JOSEPH CONRADImagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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 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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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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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