If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
JOSEPH CONRADTo have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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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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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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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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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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It 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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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