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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

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
God is for men, and religion for women.
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God Man One Liner Religion Woman
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Charm Life Sea
All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Betrayal Conscience Himself Rule
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Deal Difficult Man Terrible Woman
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Illusion Profit Respect Safety
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
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Achievement Greatness Yourself
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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Eyes Lost Lying See Truth Wind Writing
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Action Myself Silence Talk
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Kiss One Liner Paradise
The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Capability Man Mindset
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Achievement Build Rule
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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Death Forget Hate Mortal Myself Simplicity World
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Accomplishment Achievement Blessing Greatness Rule Warm World
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Cure Live Question
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Interest Sympathy Writing
If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Defeat Failure Inspirational Mistake Perspective Yourself
I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Afraid History Inspirational Myself Work Yourself
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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Extraordinary Eyes Life Support Thinking
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Himself Man Work
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Afraid Bliss Yourself
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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Achievement Feeling Myself Power See Try Word Writing Yourself
A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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End Serene Simplicity Social Soul
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Adventure Romance Spirit Task
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Myself Power Right Word World

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

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