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

Joseph Conrad

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.
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Intellectual Kind Man Measurement Misery Universal
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Enemy Friendship Judgement Man
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Cure Live Question
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Action Myself Silence Talk
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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Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Deal Difficult Man Terrible Woman
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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Art Belief Escape Knowledge Man Quite Shadow Understand
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
It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Mistake Myself Work
We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Alone Dreams Life Live Pain
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Carry Deal Destruction Fly Space Word
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Art Aspiration Carry Condition Humble Justice Work
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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Conscience Kind Man Nature Tragedy Victim
The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Capability Man Mindset
You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Clear Integrity Man Moral Responsibility Sound
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Charm Life Sea

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

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