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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

Joseph Conrad

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Illusion Profit Respect Safety
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Himself Man Work
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
We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Be Yourself One Liner Ourselves
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Charm Life Sea
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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Darkness Himself Power
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
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Legs Mindset Myself Road
The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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Confession Courage Endurance Faith Generation Power Quality Sea Touch Truth
Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Judgement Man Weakness Yourself
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Action Myself Silence Talk
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Cure Live Question
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Adventure Romance Spirit Task
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Art Aspiration Carry Condition Humble Justice Work
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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Art Bird Destroy History Repeat Reproduction Song Wild World
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Afraid Bliss Yourself

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