But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
JOSEPH CONRADProtection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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