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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

Joseph Conrad

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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Confession Courage Endurance Faith Generation Power Quality Sea Touch Truth
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
JOSEPH CONRAD

Eyes Lost Lying See Truth Wind Writing
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Face Hard Time Inspirational Way
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Goal Man Myself Peace
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Account Home Journey
Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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Darkness Himself Power
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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Argument Himself Power Right Trust World
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Charm Life Sea
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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Achievement Feeling Myself Power See Try Word Writing Yourself
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Action Myself Silence Talk
We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Be Yourself One Liner Ourselves

It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

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