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.
JOSEPH CONRADWho 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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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