You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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They 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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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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