A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
JOSEPH CONRADThere 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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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