Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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