To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
JOSEPH CONRAD
All a man can betray is his conscience.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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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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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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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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