It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRADThe human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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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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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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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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