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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.

Joseph Conrad

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Cruelty Discover Greatness Greedy History Occasion
The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Capability Man Mindset
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Audacity Belief Character Essence Expression Life Man Safety Surround
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Legs Mindset Myself Road
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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Books Friendship Leaving Old Pocket Solid
You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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Death Forget Hate Mortal Myself Simplicity World
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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Day Easy Fall Quick Sea Wake Up
We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Be Yourself One Liner Ourselves
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
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
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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Death Fall In Love Fundamental Love Separate Talk Truth
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Enjoyment Reality Talk
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Ambition Exception Kind Law Man
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
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Kiss One Liner Paradise

Kisses are the remnants of paradise.

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