I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
JOSEPH CONRADIt would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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