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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.

Joseph Conrad

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Accomplishment Achievement Blessing Greatness Rule Warm World
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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Believe Exploration Ocean Oneself Particle Truth
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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Aspiration Clear Existence Human Path Temper
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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Bilnd Faith Fear Mystery Soul Struggle
A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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End Serene Simplicity Social Soul
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
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Enemy Friendship Greatness Word
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Achievement Greatness Yourself
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
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
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
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
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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Art Belief Escape Knowledge Man Quite Shadow Understand
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Achievement Build Rule
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

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