To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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