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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Joseph Conrad

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Adventure Romance Spirit Task
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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Clear Integrity Man Moral Responsibility Sound
That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Death Fall In Love Fundamental Love Separate Talk Truth
Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Account Home Journey
I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Discover Myself Work
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
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Legs Mindset Myself Road
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Afraid Bliss Yourself
The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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Creation Cruelty Ethics Mad Universe View
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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Art Belief Escape Knowledge Man Quite Shadow Understand
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
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
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Accident Strength Weakness Yourself
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

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