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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.

Joseph Conrad

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Illusion Profit Respect Safety
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Deal Difficult Man Terrible Woman
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Ambition Exception Kind Law Man
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Cruelty Discover Greatness Greedy History Occasion
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Interest Sympathy Writing
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality
I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Discover Myself Work
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
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
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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Eyes Lost Lying See Truth Wind Writing
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Charm Life Sea
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
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Creation Cruelty Ethics Mad Universe View

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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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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