A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
JOSEPH CONRADPerhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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