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.
JOSEPH CONRADNowhere 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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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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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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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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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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