Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRADProtection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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