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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.

Joseph Conrad

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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Art Creative Magic Surprise
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality
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
You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Clear Integrity Man Moral Responsibility Sound
The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Capability Man Mindset
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
All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Betrayal Conscience Himself Rule
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Achievement Greatness Yourself
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Ambition Exception Kind Law Man
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
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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Death Fall In Love Fundamental Love Separate Talk Truth
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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Light Moon Mystery Passionate Soul
To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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Achievement Affair Busy Doubt Experience Fear Material Reflection
We live as we dream – alone.
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Alone Dreams Live One Liner

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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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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