We live as we dream – alone.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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