The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
JOSEPH CONRADThere 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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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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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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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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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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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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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