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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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Born Earth Fate Goodness People Wait
We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Alone Dreams Life Live Pain
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
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
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
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Accident Strength Weakness Yourself
All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Betrayal Conscience Himself Rule
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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Beyond Carry Move Normal Order Ourselves
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Kiss One Liner Paradise
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
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
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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Aspiration Clear Existence Human Path Temper
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Death Excitement Imagination Yourself
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
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality

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