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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Joseph Conrad

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
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
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
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Charm Life Sea
God is for men, and religion for women.
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God Man One Liner Religion Woman
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Illusion Profit Respect Safety
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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Live Memories Passion Pretend Truth
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
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Enemy Friendship Greatness Word
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Legs Mindset Myself Road
But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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Earth Light Live Old Run
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
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality
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
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Cruelty Discover Greatness Greedy History Occasion
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself

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