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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 human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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Illusion Lonely Memories Misery Naked Terrorism True Word
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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Intellectual Kind Man Measurement Misery Universal
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Accident Strength Weakness Yourself
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Luxury Necessary Protection
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Art Aspiration Carry Condition Humble Justice Work
We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Be Yourself One Liner Ourselves
We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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Darkness Earth Live Long Old Past
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Goal Man Myself Peace
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
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
You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Clear Integrity Man Moral Responsibility Sound
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Art Life Long Short Success
I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Afraid History Inspirational Myself Work Yourself
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
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

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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