It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRADIf you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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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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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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