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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

Joseph Conrad

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
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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Extraordinary Eyes Life Support Thinking
All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Betrayal Conscience Himself Rule
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
God is for men, and religion for women.
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God Man One Liner Religion Woman
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Goal Man Myself Peace
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Himself Man Work
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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Appearance Different Earth Yourself
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
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Art Life Long Short Success
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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Devotion Human Leadership Nature Noble Revolution Selfish Victim
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Alone Belief Evil Man Necessary Quite Source Wickedness
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Cure Live Question
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Illusion Profit Respect Safety
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

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