I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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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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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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