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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

Joseph Conrad

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Illusion Profit Respect Safety
We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Be Yourself One Liner Ourselves
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Audacity Belief Character Essence Expression Life Man Safety Surround
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Cure Live Question
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
JOSEPH CONRAD

Eyes Lost Lying See Truth Wind Writing
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Legs Mindset Myself Road
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 human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Goal Man Myself Peace
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Himself Man Work
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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Death Fall In Love Fundamental Love Separate Talk Truth
Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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Darkness Himself Power
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Achievement Build Rule
You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Clear Integrity Man Moral Responsibility Sound
We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Alone Dreams Life Live Pain
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
Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Deep Dreams Fear Life One Liner
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Art Aspiration Carry Condition Humble Justice Work
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Enemy Friendship Judgement Man
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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Art Belief Escape Knowledge Man Quite Shadow Understand
Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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Illusion Lonely Memories Misery Naked Terrorism True Word
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Community Crime Faith Kind Man Reality
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Enjoyment Reality Talk
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
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Charm Life Sea
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Aspiration Clear Existence Human Path Temper
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Art Life Long Short Success

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

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