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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Joseph Conrad

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Cruelty Discover Greatness Greedy History Occasion
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Carry Deal Destruction Fly Space Word
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
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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Creation Cruelty Ethics Mad Universe View
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
The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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Confession Courage Endurance Faith Generation Power Quality Sea Touch Truth
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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Earth Light Live Old Run
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Believe Experience Luck Man Mark
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Cure Live Question
I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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Books Friendship Leaving Old Pocket Solid
We live as we dream – alone.
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Alone Dreams Live One Liner
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Community Crime Faith Kind Man Reality
We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Alone Dreams Life Live Pain
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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Audacity Belief Character Essence Expression Life Man Safety Surround
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

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