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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.

Joseph Conrad

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
Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Deep Dreams Fear Life One Liner
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
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
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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Extraordinary Eyes Life Support Thinking
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Carry Deal Destruction Fly Space Word
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Deal Difficult Man Terrible Woman
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Achievement Greatness Yourself
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
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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Illusion Lonely Memories Misery Naked Terrorism True Word
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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Death Forget Hate Mortal Myself Simplicity World
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Action Myself Silence Talk
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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Aspiration Clear Existence Human Path Temper
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
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Illusion Profit Respect Safety
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Himself Man Work
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
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Achievement Build Rule
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
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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Beyond Carry Move Normal Order Ourselves
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Alone Belief Evil Man Necessary Quite Source Wickedness
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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Born Earth Fate Goodness People Wait
It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Mistake Myself Work
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Interest Sympathy Writing
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

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