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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.

Joseph Conrad

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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Light Moon Mystery Passionate Soul
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Goal Man Myself Peace
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Interest Sympathy Writing
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
JOSEPH CONRAD

Eyes Lost Lying See Truth Wind Writing
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
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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Appearance Different Earth Yourself
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Cure Live Question
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Believe Experience Luck Man Mark
I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Discover Myself Work
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Kiss One Liner Paradise
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Enemy Friendship Judgement Man
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Intellectual Kind Man Measurement Misery Universal
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Charm Life Sea
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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Devotion Human Leadership Nature Noble Revolution Selfish Victim
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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Creation Cruelty Ethics Mad Universe View

I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.

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