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Joseph Conrad

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

Community Crime Faith Kind Man Reality
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Face Hard Time Inspirational Way
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Kiss One Liner Paradise
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality
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
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
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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Day Easy Fall Quick Sea Wake Up
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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Devotion Human Leadership Nature Noble Revolution Selfish Victim
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Illusion Profit Respect Safety
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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Light Moon Mystery Passionate Soul
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Accomplishment Achievement Blessing Greatness Rule Warm World
Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Deep Dreams Fear Life One Liner
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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Intellectual Kind Man Measurement Misery Universal
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
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

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