A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
JOSEPH CONRADHe 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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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