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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

Joseph Conrad

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
We live as we dream – alone.
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Alone Dreams Live One Liner
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Community Crime Faith Kind Man Reality
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Death Excitement Imagination Yourself
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
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
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Face Hard Time Inspirational Way
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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Argument Himself Power Right Trust World
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
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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Believe Exploration Ocean Oneself Particle Truth
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Cruelty Discover Greatness Greedy History Occasion
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.
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Darkness Himself Power
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Believe Experience Luck Man Mark
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Adventure Romance Spirit Task

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