We can never cease to be ourselves.
JOSEPH CONRADFew 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.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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