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

Joseph Conrad

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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Art Bird Destroy History Repeat Reproduction Song Wild World
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Enemy Friendship Judgement Man
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
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
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
It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Mistake Myself Work
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Community Crime Faith Kind Man Reality
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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Achievement Affair Busy Doubt Experience Fear Material Reflection
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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Illusion Lonely Memories Misery Naked Terrorism True Word
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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Aspiration Clear Existence Human Path Temper
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Friendship Human Man Nature Support
We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Alone Dreams Life Live Pain
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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Believe Exploration Ocean Oneself Particle Truth
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality

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

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