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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.

Joseph Conrad

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Charm Life Sea
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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Devotion Human Leadership Nature Noble Revolution Selfish Victim
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Art Imagination Invention Life Master
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
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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Conscience Kind Man Nature Tragedy Victim
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Cure Live Question
We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Alone Dreams Life Live Pain
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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Bilnd Faith Fear Mystery Soul Struggle
It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Mistake Myself Work
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Community Crime Faith Kind Man 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
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Achievement Build Rule
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Enjoyment Reality Talk
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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Darkness Earth Live Long Old Past
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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Appearance Different Earth Yourself

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