Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
JOSEPH CONRADImagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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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.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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.
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