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.
JOSEPH CONRADIf you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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