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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

Joseph Conrad

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Adventure Romance Spirit Task
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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Achievement Feeling Myself Power See Try Word Writing Yourself
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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Conscience Kind Man Nature Tragedy Victim
All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Betrayal Conscience Himself Rule
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
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 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
If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Defeat Failure Inspirational Mistake Perspective Yourself
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Himself Man Work
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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Death Forget Hate Mortal Myself Simplicity World
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
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Enemy Friendship Greatness Word
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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Chance Discover Reality Work Yourself
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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Achievement Affair Busy Doubt Experience Fear Material Reflection
Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Judgement Man Weakness Yourself
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

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

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