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.
JOSEPH CONRADAs a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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