The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADThe 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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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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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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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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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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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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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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