It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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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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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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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