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
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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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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