All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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