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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

Joseph Conrad

Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Account Home Journey
Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Judgement Man Weakness Yourself
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Brutal Force Strength Weakness Yourself
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Adventure Romance Spirit Task
The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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Creation Cruelty Ethics Mad Universe View
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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Conscience Kind Man Nature Tragedy Victim
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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Darkness Earth Live Long Old Past
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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Argument Himself Power Right Trust World
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
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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Bilnd Faith Fear Mystery Soul Struggle
We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Alone Dreams Life Live Pain
I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Chance Discover Reality Work Yourself
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
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Carry Deal Destruction Fly Space Word
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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Believe Exploration Ocean Oneself Particle Truth
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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Aspiration Clear Existence Human Path Temper

We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

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