Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
JOSEPH CONRAD
He 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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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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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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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