We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
JOSEPH CONRADThey 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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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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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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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